Lyric Poem

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“In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)

“This poem is concerned with language on a very plain level.
Look at it talking to you.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)