“One of the jobs of poetry is to make the unbearable bearable, not by falsehood but by clear, precise confrontation.”
Richard Wilbur, interview, The Paris Review, Winter 1977
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
by ldemanski
“One of the jobs of poetry is to make the unbearable bearable, not by falsehood but by clear, precise confrontation.”
Richard Wilbur, interview, The Paris Review, Winter 1977