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“Poetry is a language that tells us . . . something that cannot be said.”
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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“If you think of the story that you tell that’s your favorite personal story, or funny story, it doesn’t have flashy sentences. It doesn’t have too much detail. It just tells the story. That isn’t, for whatever reason, the way most people write books. But it seemed to me that there was no reason that it couldn’t be the way at least one person writes books. I said: ‘I’m going to stop writing the parts that people skim.'”
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“The writer’s job is to turn the unspeakable into words — not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues.”