"at no bird dawn—"
Bronk, Riding, Flaubert, Kunitz, Celan, Zukofsky, Niedecker,
William Bronk:
Laura Riding:
Youth presuming to be a writer: “Maestro, if only I had a plot, I would be able to write a novel.”
Gustave Flaubert: “I will give you a plot. Let's see, a man and a woman love each other, period and end of story. Now develop it yourself. With talent you will be able to come up with The Charterhouse of Parma. But you must put forth the talent.”
Stanley Kunitz:
Paul Celan:
There’s nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even when he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.
Louis Zukofsky:
Lorine Niedecker to Cid Corman, July 20, 1967:
“Just a few minutes ago rather spontaneous from a folk conversation and I suppose some of my own dark forebodings. We shd. be true to our subconscious? Sorry it is another I poem. My god, I must try to get away from that.”
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