Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Great Regulars: The very triteness of

"ye sometimes have t'roam/Afore ye really 'preciate the things ye lef' behind," the very flatness of "It don't make any differunce how rich ye get t' be" makes those phrases more reassuring, more comfortable than any lines I can think of by [Edgar] Guest's contemporaries Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore.

from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice

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