James Tate quotes
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“Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.”
-- James TateSource : James Tate (1999). “The route as briefed”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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“The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit.”
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“In You Are Not Dead Wendy Xu breaks all the old rules that have never done us any favors anyway. She writes beautifully, noticing who we are, and letting us see ourselves with a little more humanity, a little more humor, a little more humility. I'm happy to have read this book.”
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“William Waltz will take me through 'the buzz and clamor in a forest of hearts.' Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America is an adventure, I will go on this adventure with Waltz as a skillful, faithful, compass-true guide. I love this book.”
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“Something should always change in a poem. The persona should learn something.”
-- James Tate
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“Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.”
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Source : Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1908). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom”
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“A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price.”
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“Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.”
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“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”
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