Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.
Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.
“To be an ‘American poet’ is a choice, one that I personally made three decades ago when I pondered the alternatives between leaving a United States that was then engaging in an openly imperialist war in Indochina and staying, which meant resisting the draft and risking imprisonment.
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Ron Silliman