voice

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• Mar 19 The Root of Praise W.H. Auden, Making, Knowing and Judging (The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays) Every poem is rooted in imaginative awe. Poetry can do a hundred and one things, delight, sadden, di...
• Mar 4 Merely a Channel Paul Klee, On Modern Art (lecture delivered at Jena, trans. Paul Findlay) The artist has studied this world of variety and has, we may suppose, quietly found his way in it. H...
• Feb 13 The Free Channel Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass The greatest poet has less a marked style and is more the channel of thoughts and things without inc...
• Feb 8 The Thing Not Named Willa Cather, The Novel Démeublé Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there—that, it seems to me, is creat...
• Feb 4 A Single Taste Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science One thing is needful.— To 'give style' to one's character—a great and rare art! It is practiced by t...
• Jan 20 The Demon and the Windowpane George Orwell, Why I Write Sheer egoism. Desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your o...