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“The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesnt make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.”
—Gertrude Stein (18741946)
“I cannot say what poetry is; I know that our sufferings and our concentrated joy, our states of plunging far and dark and turning to come back to the worldso that the moment of intense turning seems still and universalall are here, in a music like the music of our time, like the hero and like the anonymous forgotten; and there is an exchange here in which our lives are met, and created.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (19131980)
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