Remember the Faulkner saying I quoted some days ago: “In writing, you must kill all your darlings”… Here is an interesting continuation: From his 1957 book After Lorca onward, the American poet Jack Spicer (1925-65) wrote what he described as “dictated” poetry. For Spicer, the poet acts as a receptive host for language, rather than as an agent of…
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Faulkner says:
In writing, you must kill all your darlings I’m as confused as can be, my writing is not an easy companion – ! Mark Twain: A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it …
We stumble – We fall – We fail –
– And so desire to progress, to become better poets, to eradicate a disease, to become better people, to perfect that which is perpetually imperfect. On Fear by Mary Ruefle
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