"… 'I want to perfect my craft so I won’t have to tell lies.' So often, when you’re stumped, the temptation is just to back down, but when
you feel this is complicated or so tenuous that there’s no way you can
say it, you have to persuade yourself you can
say it, that there is a way of
saying it, that there’s nothing that is unsayable. And this gives you strength
for the next time.
"The poem, by its very nature, holds the possibility of
revelation, and revelation doesn’t come easy. You have to fight for it. There
is that moment when you suddenly open a door and enter into the room of the
unspeakable."
-Stanley Kunitz
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