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6.10.2007

not plague or pandemic

Poetry is not an art form for the mass-media age. It doesn’t create instant hysteria as does a plague or pandemic. Poetry travels quietly and slowly, gradually infecting that portion of the populace predisposed to its life-altering influence.

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  1. Anonymous11:49 PM

    Indeed, it seeps. Osmosis.

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  2. Anonymous12:23 AM

    I agree.
    And too, am glad of it.
    For in some ways it is untainted by "mass" consumptive spoiling.

    Anna

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  3. JforJames12:48 PM

    Juan Ramon Jimenez has it that "the audience for poetry is not wide, but deep." or something like that.

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