"There has to be some private path the reader just can't follow all the way. There must be a crack in the poet of some sort. It has to be deep, privately potent, and unmendable — and the poet must forever try to mend it."
--Kay Ryan, from an essay on Marianne Moore; the kind of smart, entertaining essay you shouldn't read while trying to formulate your own ideas. But this quote really struck me.
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