Carolina QuotesIt seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which we live. It furnishes the vision. It shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.
Helen Bevington Connected to the Carolinas
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p. 34
- work
- When Found, Make a Verse of (1961)
- year
- 1961
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- p. 34
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