“That’s the release we get from writing, we may retreat there ourselves, into our own work (if you can call it that) from praise or censure—or contempt. Our poems are to us the mouse nest in the grass where we actually live and about which we feel, the less said the better. All artists are secretive and fly from a style which has been found out.”—William Carlos Williams, letter to Marianne Moore, November 7, 1944, in Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams, edited by John C. Thirlwall (1957)
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