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• Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• You know I have about the same interest in jewelry as I have in politics, horse racing, modern poetry, and women who… — Cary Grant
• A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly… — Walter Pater
• While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really… — David Antin
• The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too. — P.J. O'Rourke
• Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well. — Cyril Connolly
• But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) Babies are illogical. 2) Nobody is… — Steve Martin
• Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca. — W S Merwin
• More modern poetry is written than read. — P.J. O'Rourke
• The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. — Robert Morgan

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