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Article: Poetry.
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- American Scholar
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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We met Ezra Pound at Grace Lounsbery's house, he came home to dinner with us and he stayed and he talked about japanese prints among other things. Gertrude Stein liked him but did not find him amusing. She said he was a village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.
-- GERTRUDE STEIN, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 1933
Poetry proves again and again that any single overall theory of anything doesn't work. Poetry is always the cat concert under the window of the room in which the official version of reality is being written.
-- CHARLES SIMIC, A Fly in the Soup, 2000
It is not rhyming and versing ...