The poetry comes first

Just enjoyed the following article http://littlestarjournal.com/blog/2012/03/robert-wrigley-allowable-error/. The paragraph that caught my attention the most was this

“For me, this has to do with responsibility. A poet’s primary responsibility is—must be—to the poem itself, to the art: the what one says must, in fact, be subservient to the how one says it, and if one maintains the determination to make a statement of political significance that is aesthetically vital, one might achieve the condition of literature. And the responsibility of literature is to tell a truth that cannot be said any other way.”

So often would be poets forget the poetry in their eagerness to convey the message.

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