Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.


"A Letter to a Young Poet". - The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942)


Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that...

Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that...

Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that...

Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that...