Top 6 Annie Finch Quotes
#2. Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yourself responsible for whatever the status quo does to you.
Annie Finch
#3. I feel the nights stretching away
thousands long behind the days
till they reach the darkness where
all of me is ancestor.
Annie Finch
#4. After all, what is lyric but the seamless fusion of formal control and passionate conviction, in the service of the expression of personal experience?
Annie Finch
#5. The next time you hear someone in a workshop remarking on how good a particular free-verse line or passage sounds, scan it. The odds are that it will fall into a regular metrical pattern.
Annie Finch
#6. Criticism is to poetry as air is to a noise: it allows it to be heard; and even if we can't see it or feel it, it is there, shaping how we hear.
Annie Finch
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