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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. we have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
-Boris Pasternak
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It Is No Longer Possible For Lyric

Boris Pasternak
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. we have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
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Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations can produce good prose. so don't think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. if you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you'll see what i mean.
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But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. but that's not a reason not to write love poetry. some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.
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In general, i would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. in the old days, i read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal talent. poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace. you can’t pick up a page. all the words slide off.
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