M. H. Abrams Quote

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.


Cornell Chronicle interview (1999)


If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.