"PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy."

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"PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy."

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"Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from and also relate it to what I think other people perceive."

People, Evolution

"I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers."

Poetry, Question, Tradition

"I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them."

People, Events, Newspapers, Television

"I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry."

Poetry, English, Language

"High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this."

Poetry, Art, Culture

"From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not."

Reading, Poetry, Myth

"But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events."

Poetry, Events, Word

"So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet."

War, People, Cause, Want

"Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today."

Love, Irish, Language, Today

"I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why."

Reading, Work, Poetry, People, Poems

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"I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more."

William Wordsworth, English Poet

Poetry, Music, Heart

"With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet

Poetry, Determination, Man

"Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet

Poetry, Work, Creation, Mind

"If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet

Poetry,

"That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet

Poetry, Invention, Needs

"Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet

Poetry,

"Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess."

Robert Adamson, Scottish Philosopher

Poetry, Books, Living, Pretty

"Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that."

Robert Adamson, Scottish Philosopher

Poetry, Writing, Years

"There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas."

Robert Adamson, Scottish Philosopher

Poetry, Example, Poems

"Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses."

Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish Poet

Poetry, Questions