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- Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. — T. S. Eliot
- I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. — Rita Dove
- Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. — Robert Morgan
- High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. — Diane Wakoski
- Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. — Diane Wakoski
- But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. — Diane Wakoski