Following on from the quote of Patrick White on Monday of this week, I thought the following to be an apt companion:
Reader: Miss Moore, your poetry is very difficult to read.
Marianne Moore: It is very difficult to write.
Marianne Moore 1887 -1972
George Plimpton (ed.) The Writer’s Chapbook (1989)
The periodic, eclectic and sometimes eccentric, cerebral meanderings of an aspirant polymath.
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