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  • What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.
    • 4 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Writing Quotes , Long Quotes
  • In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Gopnik Quotes , Writing Quotes , Heart Quotes
  • Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain.
    • 4 years ago



    Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Writing Quotes , Plain Language Quotes