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There is nothing quite like it anywhere else:
Poetry
has
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had imitators, but has so far survived them all. It is an American Insti–
tution. To poetry-readers abroad it is still the magazine to which we
look first, to make us aware of whatever new poetic talent appears in
the
U.S.A...."
T. S. ELIOT
A creative instrument in the development of the poetry
ofour time...."
ARC H I B A L D MAC LEI S H
Without
Poetry
the poem like the wild pigeon would
have remained among us no more than an official memory."
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
Abnegation et integrite sont les vertus foncieres qui legiti–
ment son eclectisme. Elle remplit, avec ferveur, une fonction qui lui
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est propre et ou il semble bien qu'elle soit irrempla<;able...."
ST. JOHN PERSB
Unique among all magazines which have supported poets,
in
being representative over a great many years of the best, and simply
the best, poems being written."
ST E P HEN S PEN D E R
Poetry
has a tradition unrivalled by any similar journal of
our
time, and was the first mouthpiece of poems which have turned
the course of our literature."
V ERN 0 N W A
t
KIN S
Its vitality is as great, and its usefulness is greater than it
has
ever been...."
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