Many young poets, nowadays, are insured against everything. For them poetry is a game like court tennis or squash racquets — one they learned at coll… - Randall Jarrell

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Many young poets, nowadays, are insured against everything. For them poetry is a game like court tennis or squash racquets — one they learned at college — and they play it with propriety, as part of their social and academic existence; their poems are occasional verse for which life itself is only one more occasion.