The difference between Pound and Whitman is not between the democrat who in deep distress could look hopefully toward the future and the fascist madly in love with the past. It is that between the woodsman and the woodcarver. It… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
The difference between Pound and Whitman is not between the democrat who in deep distress could look hopefully toward the future and the fascist… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
History Coming too close Is monstrous, like a doll That is alive and bigger than the child Who tries to hold it. — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
How to sustain the miracle Of being, that like a muted bell, Or like some ocean-breathing shell, Quivers, intense and still? — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
