Samuel R. Delany - Poetry Quotes

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Perhaps it's good you're not going to write anymore: you'd have to start considering all those dull things like your relation to your audience, the relation between your personality and your poetry, the relation between your poetry and all the poetry before it.

Samuel R. Delany

Like contemporary poetry, philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study — which is why most of what gets done is so impoverished.

Samuel R. Delany

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

Samuel R. Delany