J. D. McClatchy

(1945–2018) Poet

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J. D. McClatchy was a poet.

Quick Facts About J. D. McClatchy

Born: December 8, 1945
Died: April 10, 2018
Profession: Poet

About J. D. McClatchy

[Wikidata] American poet (1945–2018)... | [Wikipedia] J. D. "Sandy" McClatchy was an American poet, opera librettist and literary critic. He was editor of the Yale Review and president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Quotes by J. D. McClatchy

No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.

J. D. McClatchy

Floats

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The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.

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Criticism

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At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for…

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Abiding

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I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well…

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Argument

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Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill.

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Flood

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To shelter and to hide, they have resigned themselves.

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Forests

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