Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness." (Kenneth Rexroth)

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness."

Kenneth Rexroth

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