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I suppose this next text
is kind of manifesto,

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except that I did not write it.

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All good poetry is the
spontaneous overflow

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of powerful feelings.

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All good poetry is forged slowly
and patiently, leak by leak,

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with sweat and blood and tears.

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All good poetry is
difficult to read,

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but we are not aware
of this fact, when we

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are considering the classics.

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All good poetry is important.

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Not because it fills our
lives with more stories,

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but because it
exposes the chinks

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in the armament of our stories.

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All good poetry
is nature poetry.

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All good poetry is a public act.

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All good poetry is
popular immediately.

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All good poetry is
meant to be read aloud.

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All good poetry is
metaphysical because it

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deals with love and death.

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All good poetry is selective,
leaving much unsaid.

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All good poetry is good to read,
so long as the words do not

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seem forced, but
flow like water.

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All good poetry is not the
result of self therapy.

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All good poetry is
Japanese in the speed

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at which it must be read.

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All good poetry is an effusion
of strong emotional experience.

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All good poetry is political.

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All good poetry is
sensuous or colorful.

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All good poetry is
already music in itself.

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All good poetry is formal.

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All good poetry is metaphysical.

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And the best poet knows the
mind of the audience really,

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really well.

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All good poetry is kept within
the discipline of the craft,

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there to shine even more
brightly and purely.

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All good poetry is
about bringing one

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into contact with beauty.

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All good poetry is both
controlled and ambiguous,

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powerful and decidedly mature.

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All good poetry is
magical in some way,

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but with a specific kind of
magic, instantly recognizable,

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yet near impossible to
paraphrase, or even parody.

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All good poetry is about
authentic experience

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and the ability to
recreate that experience

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for yourself, and for others.

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All good poetry is
confessional poetry.

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All good poetry is angsty.

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All good poetry is
odd, in some fashion.

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All good poetry is a
gamble, and poems of place

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don't always pay off.

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All good poetry is a kernel of
truth, a piece of the singular

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truth of love's existence.

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All good poetry is adapted
to outdoor reading.

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All good poetry is paradoxical.

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All good poetry is a
metaphor of eternal truth.

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All good poetry is born in
the moment of its making.

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All good poetry is disconcerting
for a moment, at least,

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when we first see
it for what it is.

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All good poetry is about
word choice, perfect flow,

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and things of that sort.

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All good poetry is
designed to leave room

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for the imagination
of the reader.

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[APPLAUSE]

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