Poetry and Ambition
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Poetry and Ambition
Greil Marcus: "Why I Write"
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Tradition and the Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot | Poetry Foundation
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The poet has to be able to create symbols that are muted and yet undeniable. The poet, above all other writers, must know how to edit out the extraneous, received, repetitious, and misleading.
Walter Mosley • This Year You Write Your Novel
At some point during this time, I saw an interview with Tranströmer from the early 1980s where the reporter asked how he came up with his poem, “The Open Window.” In the poem, a man is shaving by an open window in the bathroom on the second floor when the razor turns into a helicopter and flies out low across the summer. Tranströmer thought for a... See more