Rochester Quotes

“Even people who don’t read much poetry want to hear that poetry is good for us and that we can do something—even spend money—to make it better. That doesn’t mean that it is good for us or that it will be better.”

—James Longenbach, the Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English, commenting in the Boston Globe on how a $175 million bequest to Poetry magazine might influence the work of poets.

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