"Somebody muffed it?? Somebody wanted to joke."

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“Brooks at The Academy of American Poets”

“Be careful what you swallow. Chew!”

“I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.”

“Already you're on Page 8.”

“Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.”

“When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.”

Resonant Thoughts

"They are pure of themselves, and not from compulsion. Before every meal they must have a wash; the fragments and remains are not served up again; the food utensils are not passed on; those which are o…"

— Xuanzang

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"The usual bad poem in somebody’s Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one’s teeth."

— Randall Jarrell

Literature1914–1965

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