Writing Problems: Be Awake!

Aristotle, Blake, Silone, Yeats, Stafford, Menashe, Dickinson

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.—Aristotle, re: tragedy

Spurning the clouds written with curses, stamps the stony law to dust, loosing the eternal horses from the dens of night, crying, “Empire is no more! And now the lion and wolf shall cease.”—William Blake

Poets in the United States are mostly unprepared for t…