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Mar 16
Raiding the Inarticulate
Seamus Heaney,
Feeling into Words (Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968–1978)
I think technique is different from craft. Craft is what you can learn from other verse. Craft is th...
Feb 27
The Questions Answers Hide
James Baldwin,
The Creative Process
The artist is distinguished from all other responsible actors in society—the politicians, legislator...
Feb 12
The Fading Coal
Percy Bysshe Shelley,
A Defence of Poetry
Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A ma...