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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

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Don Paterson

The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself. . . Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.

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We turn from the light to see.

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Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

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Imagine your shadow burning off the page
As the dear world and the dead word disengage

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Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical structures for the production of its effects. In its case, the medium is syntax, grammar and logical continuity, which together form the carrier-wave of plain sense within which its deeper meanings are broadcast.

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Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.

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