American - Poet | April 22, 1943 -
Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present.
Louise Gluck
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I have no concern with widening audience.
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What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterprise.
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I preferred the simplest vocabulary.
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I don't live with earplugs. I don't like the spotlight - but I like overhearing conversations.
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We have a disturbing cultural appetite for novelty, and it seems to me wrong each new laureate should dislodge the ideas of his or her predecessor, especially when they're still unfolding.
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It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected.
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