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Quotation by Katherine Anne Porter
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as quoted in "Contexts" [poem] by Irena Klepfisz (1982)Herr Freytag, in Ship of Fools (1962)interview Writers at Work, Second Series, ed. George Plimpton (1963)interview in Writers at Work Second Series, ed. George Plimpton (1963)"Marriage Is Belonging" Collected Essays and Occasional Writings, Delta (1973)
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist—the only thing he's good for—is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. Even if it's only his view of a meaning. That's what he's for—to give his view of life.
Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980), U.S. short-story writer, novelist. Interview, Writers at Work, Second Series, ed. George Plimpton (1963).
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