Bernstein 86: "A social value of poetry / may be / to provide opportunities to / tune ourselves / up / so that we can hear / the tunes of our fellows / (of all sexes) / & of the earth & sky."
see also 119: "The cultural segmentation, complexity, and communicative refractoriness of much contemporary poetry, which excludes it from major-media dissemination, are in fact the kernels of its intertwined political and aesthetic value"
also 199: "particularity and peculiarity of place and time and person"