All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.
All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.
“Fiction is meant to illuminate, to explode, to refresh. I don’t think there’s any consecutive moral philosophy in fiction beyond excellence. Acuteness of feeling and velocity have always seemed to me terribly important. People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.”
John Cheever