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Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.
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There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.
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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
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The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.
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A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.
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