James Tate Quotes

• Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

  James Tate

  Editing, Reading Poetry, Needs

  James Tate (1999). “The route as briefed”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit.

  James Tate

  Challenges, Ordinary, Ultimate

  James Tate (2013). “Selected Poems”, p.115, Wesleyan University Press

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• Something should always change in a poem. The persona should learn something.

  James Tate

  Should, Persona

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• William Waltz will take me through 'the buzz and clamor in a forest of hearts.' Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America is an adventure, I will go on this adventure with Waltz as a skillful, faithful, compass-true guide. I love this book.

  James Tate

  Book, Heart, Adventure

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• In You Are Not Dead Wendy Xu breaks all the old rules that have never done us any favors anyway. She writes beautifully, noticing who we are, and letting us see ourselves with a little more humanity, a little more humor, a little more humility. I'm happy to have read this book.

  James Tate

  Book, Writing, Humility

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