Great poems are all fables about life. - John Hollander

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Great poems are all fables about life.

John Hollander

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About John Hollander

John Hollander (October 28, 1929 – August 17, 2013) was an American poet and literary critic.

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One crosses the brink of literalness into poetry by desiring , noticing, fixing on something and wondering what to make of it.

Reciting a poem aloud, you are not like an actor, rather you come to understand, then to be, the voice of the poem itself.

I revise very little. I always write in long hand and revise when I type. I test them out when I read them aloud.