The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the s — Joseph Brodsky
The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the s — Joseph Brodsky
The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the s — Joseph Brodsky
The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the s — Joseph Brodsky
The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the s — Joseph Brodsky
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The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the state of poetry but, frankly, the rung of the evolutionary ladder on which society is stuck.

— Joseph Brodsky
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