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That inquiry is a first rebellion.

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That poetry is encounter science.

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That the poet will always stop short of becoming anything.

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That the vocation of poetry is toward disownership.

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That the poem is a conditional system.

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That the poetic talent is a correctional facility.

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That the participation is imagination.

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That the world is never said enough.

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That it's your job to interpret tears.

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That poetry is significantly aspirational.

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That the poem refutes the longing to redeem it.
 

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That poetry is to imagine unenforceable principles.

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That the total poetry is inevitably disciplinary.

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That the remarks be, like Ponge's soap, susceptible.

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That the melancholy of the prototype is the dispensation of the work's society.

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That while the language is not transparent, the language may see me through.

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That poetry recapitulates the basic problem of language as forced entry –– or invention.

That the basic problem of language is reachability.

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That every poem is lifeist.

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That all poems are derivatives.

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That poetry is insufficient cover for professional opinions.