Anne sexton

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Originally Posted by AuntShecky

This is absolutely, positively true in the sense that the best poetry is "universal," meaning that its power transcends the banality of personal experience. That is the difference
between a good poem and a mere journal entry.

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I have a wee quarrel with your concept of the universality of good poetry. My response is a mixture of Tip O'Neill's "All politics is local" and Blake's "To hold the world in a grain of sand..." Mustn't one, to begin with, observe that grain of sand as if it were unique?