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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. — Yeats

reginald shepherd on writing

But when has impossibility ever deterred anyone from a cherished goal? As the brilliant poet and teacher Alvin Feinman once said to me, “Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn’t it?”

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  1. christine says:

    You picked out the essential heart of this essay. I’ve been thinking about it all week. Good stuff.

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