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David Dalton Yezzi is an American poet, editor, actor, and professor. He currently teaches poetry in the Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University. Wikipedia  

✵ 1966
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Famous David Yezzi Quotes

“The person who wrote the poem can tell you more about the poem than anyone else.”

David Yezzi

Interview with Ernest Hibert (2006)

“Language has an incantory power. The source qualities of language go to the very roots of our experience of poetry.”

David Yezzi

Interview with Ernest Hibert (2006)

“Not every poet is a great reader of his own work.”

David Yezzi

Interview with Ernest Hibert (2006)

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