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Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. a culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.
-Erica Jong
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Poetry Is The Inner Life Of A

Erica Jong
Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. a culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.
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There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. words are words. the only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets and have an academic stance. they've got something to lose if they say it's all poetry; if there's not music to it, and you have to wear a certain kind of checkered shirt or something like that. it's all the same. lyrics are lyrics, poetry is poetry, lyrics are poetry, and poetry is lyrics. they are interchangeable to me.
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We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. on one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. on the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.
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But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. but that's not a reason not to write love poetry. some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.
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I don't know that i had a sense that there was such a thing as "the poetry world" in the 1960s and early 70s. maybe poets did, but for me as an onlooker and reader of poetry, poetry felt like it was part of a larger literary world. i mean, even the phrase "the poetry world" reflects a sort of balkanization of american literary and artistic life that has to some extent happened since then.
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