John Fuller Quotes

• Poetry surprises us with what we already know.

  John Fuller

  Poetry, Literature, Surprise

  John Fuller (2011). “Who Is Ozymandias?: And other Puzzles in Poetry”, p.12, Random House

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• It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover, and the very fact that the name is withheld is offered as a guarantee of the closeness and significance of the relationship.

  John Fuller

  Names, Poetry, Guarantees

  John Fuller (2011). “Who Is Ozymandias?: And other Puzzles in Poetry”, p.194, Random House

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