"In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition."

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over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be more and more extreme, intricate and in a way divorced from life itself. It seems as if what we all need is a great purification - but how will that come about?

— May Sarton