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"[They are] representing our cultural intelligentsia, they are the people who support the arts - who buy classical and jazz records; who attend foreign films, serious theater, opera, symphony, and dance; who read quality fiction and biographies; who listen to public radio and subscribe to the best journals. (They are also often the parents who read poetry to their children and remember, once upon a time in college or high school or kindergarten, liking it themselves.) No one knows the size of this community, but even if one accepts the conservative estimate that it accounts for only two percent of the U. S. population, it still represnts a potential audeicne of almost five million readers."
"Aesthetic pleasure needs no justification, because a life without such pleasure is one not worth living."
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.
"Aesthetic pleasure needs no justification, because a life without such pleasure is one not worth living."
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.