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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself.
AL ALVAREZ
In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets’ nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.
