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Now Spender himself has no idea of form; his poetry is so much like poetry, and so remote from poems, but I think most of his work will become almost as un unreadable as the worst of the Georgians – and very soon

The poem is, as all poems are, its own question and answer, it’s own contradiction, it’s own agreement. I ask only that my poetry be taken literally. The aim of the poem is the mark of the poem itself makes… A poem moves only towards its end, which is the last line. Anything further than that is the problematic stuff of poetry, not of the poem.