Japanese Contemporary Poetry

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“Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

“The Japanese say, “If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.””
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“The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn’t make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

“As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)