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“Our lives are so dominated by financial concerns - paying the rent - and consumer choices - what sort of detergent to buy at Costco - that larger issues get subsumed into economic ones. Not just social justice, but basic issues of faith and meaning.”

Quote by Campbell McGrath

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Campbell McGrath

Campbell McGrath is a renowned American poet, born on January 26, 1962. His poetry is celebrated for its unique style and profound emotional expression. more

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“A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of artistic expression.”

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“Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.”

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“All of the arts are kin - music and sculpture and dance, those are wordless art forms. But poetry is defined by language. Of course, each art is distinct, and has its own character - not just in terms of media, but in terms of what seems to lie at the heart of it.”

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“The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and that is certainly irrational, so perhaps I am no wiser than Elizabeth Perkins as to the nature of poetry.”

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“I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy.”

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