“The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last. We are unnerved, I supposed, by the thought that authenticity, in the poem, is not produced by sincerity. We incline, in our anxiety for formulas, to be literal….This assumes our poems are fingerprints, which they are not. And the processes by which experience is ch…
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