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Showing posts with label end. Show all posts

image explains

End with an image and don’t explain.

—Stanley Kunitz (no citation, but quoted in many places).

starts here ends there

A successful poem starts in one position and ends at a very different one, often a contradictory or opposite one; yet there has been no break in the unity of the poem.

—Randall Jarrell,“Levels and Opposites: Structure in Poetry”