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from Madness, Rack, & Honey

11.29.2015

Paul Valéry said: the opening line of a poem is like finding a fruit in the ground, a piece of fallen fruit you have never seen before, and the poet’s task is to create the tree from which such a fruit would fall.

from Mary Ruefle’s Madness, Rack, and Honey

Filed Under: asides, writing Tagged With: Mary Ruefle, Paul Valéry

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