I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it. (Marilyn Hacker)

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

Marilyn Hacker

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