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“Poetry arises from the desire to get beyond the finite and the historical—the human world of violence and difference—and to reach the transcendent or divine. You're moved to write a poem, you feel ...”
“Since the world is ending,” Peter quoted from behind us, “why not let the children touch the paintings?”
“There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form – exhortations poets don’...”
“I don’t want what we’re doing to just end up as notes for a novel.”
