J. D. McClatchy Quotes
- A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied,…
- The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.
- Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill.
- No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.
- To shelter and to hide, they have resigned themselves.