“If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.”
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It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.
