E. B. White Quote

All poets who, when reading from their own works, experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

"How to Tell a Major Poet from a Minor Poet" in The New Yorker (1938); reprinted in Quo Vadimus: Or, the Case for the Bicycle (1939)

All poets who, when reading from their own works, experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works...

All poets who, when reading from their own works, experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works...

All poets who, when reading from their own works, experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works...

All poets who, when reading from their own works, experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works...