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One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience. There are always areas of vast silence in any culture, and part of an artist’s job is to go into those areas and come back from the silence with something to say. It’s one reason why we read poetry, because poets can give us the words we need. When we read good... See more
She took the opportunity to rein in what must have seemed syntactic and figural excesses in the work. In a passage about the invalid’s attitude to poetry, the 1930 version state
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
Nothing has impacted my work more than thinking about the interplay between line and sentence. Lines have a vertical energy: They pull down the page, almost as if gravity is tugging from the bottom of the page. Sentences, on the other hand, have a horizontal energy: They push across the page, beginning on the left and pressing toward the right
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