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In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more poetry than prose, but now it i...more

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For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is ...more

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It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

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As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.

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The responsibility of any science, any pure pursuit, is ultimately to itself, and on this point physics, philosophy, and poetry unite with Satan in th...more