“It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.”
Rick Riordan (1964) American writer
“An achieved poem is always beautiful in its own way, though such a way will many times strike people as harsh and repellent.”
A matter of timing: The Guardian, Saturday 21 September 2002 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/sep/21/featuresreviews.guardianreview28/print
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