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James Tate Quotes

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

James Tate
Editing, Reading Poetry, Needs
James Tate (1999). “The route as briefed”, Univ of Michigan Pr

The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit.

James Tate
Challenges, Ordinary, Ultimate
James Tate (2013). “Selected Poems”, p.115, Wesleyan University Press

Something should always change in a poem. The persona should learn something.

James Tate
Should, Persona

William Waltz will take me through 'the buzz and clamor in a forest of hearts.' Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America is an adventure, I will go on this adventure with Waltz as a skillful, faithful, compass-true guide. I love this book.

James Tate
Book, Heart, Adventure

In You Are Not Dead Wendy Xu breaks all the old rules that have never done us any favors anyway. She writes beautifully, noticing who we are, and letting us see ourselves with a little more humanity, a little more humor, a little more humility. I'm happy to have read this book.

James Tate
Book, Writing, Humility

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