Over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be more and more extreme, intricate and in a way divorced from life itself. It seems as if what we all need is a great purification — but how will that come about?


May Sarton: Selected Letters 1916-1954 (1997)

May Sarton Quotes

Over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be more and more extreme,...

Over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be more and more extreme,...

Over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be more and more extreme,...

Over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be more and more extreme,...