Top 5 Stephen Burt Quotes

#1. One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.

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#2. To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical.

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#3. Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic, rhyming English tradition - his inventive lines have this absence at their back.

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#4. In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others.

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#5. Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.

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