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... the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extrapoetic ends, constitutes misuse.... it may be poetry’s stubborn quality of rockbottom, intrinsic uselessness which ... constitutes the guarantee of its integrity, and hence of its ultimate value to us. - Jan Clausen
Attribution: Jan Clausen (b. 1943), U.S. poet, fiction writer, and lesbian feminist. A Movement of Poets (1982). Referring to some feminists’ “political” use of poetry.

Categories: And Lesbian Feminist, Feminism, Fiction Writer, Integrity, Poetry And Poets

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