Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts

no edges

Poets have always known that one's education has no edges, has no end, is not separated out and cannot be separated out in any way, and is full of strength because one refuses to have it separated out.

—Muriel Rukeyser, "The Education of the Poet," The Writer and Her Work (W.W. Norton, 1980), edited by Janet Sternburg

education in public

Allen Tate said, describing his own critical essays, “I simply conducted my education in public.”

Quoted in “The Exercise of Reverence,” Essays on Poetry (Dalkey Archive Press, 2003) by Ralph J. Mills, Jr.