What is needed is a noticeable unnoticeable style,... a dir… - J. V. Cunningham

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What is needed is a noticeable unnoticeable style,... a directness of speech that seems to one judging easily imitable, to one trying it nothing less so.

J. V. Cunningham

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James Vincent Cunningham (August 23, 1911 – March 30, 1985) was an American poet, sometimes described as a neo-classicist or anti-modernist.

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