“When a poem is really finished, you can’t change anything. You can’t move words around. You can’t… “ — Art of Quotation

Posted on February 20, 2020 by poetryfest

When a poem is really finished, you can’t change anything. You can’t move words around. You can’t say, ‘In other words, you mean.’ No, that’s not it. There are no other words in which you mean it. This is it. W. S. Merwin, poet

via “When a poem is really finished, you can’t change anything. You can’t move words around. You can’t… “ — Art of Quotation

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