“If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.”
M. H. Abrams (1912–2015) American literary theorist
Cornell Chronicle interview (1999)
“For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.”
The Big Sea (1940)
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