“Discipline is the groundwork of all art. The abstract
painter has to know first how to draw, the symbolist to write ordinary lines.
And the poet, no matter how soon he intends to throw overboard his formalism,
has first to be capable of a correctly rhymed and metered stanza.” —Pulitzer
Prize-winning American poet Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978), “The Light Side of
the Moon,”
The American Scholar
(August 1965)
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