Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill.
A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironi… - J. D. Mcclatchy
A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironi…
- J. D. Mcclatchy
The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of. - J. D. Mcclatchy
The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.
No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day. - J. D. Mcclatchy
No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.
To shelter and to hide, they have resigned themselves. - J. D. Mcclatchy
To shelter and to hide, they have resigned themselves.
Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill. - J. D. Mcclatchy
I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well as argument-to a poem. But a… - J. D. Mcclatchy
I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well as argument-to a poem. But a…
At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for our abiding fascination with it,… - J. D. Mcclatchy
At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for our abiding fascination with it,…
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