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Save your poems for those who can understand them.
The novel is, or may be, among the mightiest instruments for swaying the heart and guiding the lives of men.
Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.
My verse forms are relatively traditional (traditions alter). In general they have moved away from strict classical patterns in th ...
An editor once said to me, "If I didn't know that you, a woman, had written these poems, I would like your work." And once an edit ...
Since I know nothing of the merits of poetry, I am not able to pass any opinion upon this, but I can see that "reap" and "deep," " ...
Poets ... are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake ...
Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product rema ...
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude.... A whole is what has a beginni ...
A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this re ...
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