and strangely one of the things not to know
is how to write."
"Sometimes writers who have wandered into good poems
have become too adept.
Auden was one.
Someplace he said he feared repeating himself
as the years went by, and this fear shocked me,
for it undercut a view I have long cherished--that
a writer is not trying for a product, but accepting
sequential signals and adjustments toward an always-
arriving present."
"For too long we have been accepting moon rocks from
people who live right where we live. We all have to earn
any moon we present."
Stafford quoting Thomas Mann:
"The truth is that every piece of work is a realization,
fragmentary but complete in itself, of our individuality...
No wonder, then, that the process is attended by surprises."
From Writing the Australian Crawl:
Views on the Writer's Vocation.
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