"One has the right to expect ordinary decency of a poet."
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"One has the right to expect ordinary decency of a poet."
Swept up in the Instagramization of the 2010s, the contemporary poetry world saw an exaltation of ‘honesty’ as an aesthetic priority. Poetry not as craft, but as ‘outlet,’ with the goal not of developing ourselves and enriching our understanding of the world, but of sitting more comfortably with how we already were and what we already believed.
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How to Be a Poet by Wendell Berry | Poetry Magazine
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