Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and universities; it is not widely distributed.
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.
The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.
America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am that stranger.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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