these strategies as self-congratulatory, untestable: "We must cease to believe in secret names and unexpected phrases which will burst the world." Without fanfare, he refused the notion that a poet could fulfill his social responsibilities by writing any kind of poem, and neither did this refusal engender any contempt for poetry. "Is it more important to produce art or to take political action," he asks in the daybooks.
from The Nation: A Test of Poetry
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