John Hollander: Writing

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

“I find free verse very, very difficult to write.”

“I usually seem to finish a poem when I write it down. I may have been carrying the notion around in my head.”

“You can teach the writing of verse.. like prose.. an instrument.. and the recognition of true poetry. The rest, writers must teach them selves.”

Interview with J D McCarthy 'The Art of Poetry' no 35 Fall 1985