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Quote by Tobias Wolff
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the nov

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels. – Tobias Wolff

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Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. – Tobias Wolff

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I teach one semester a year, and this year Im just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion. – Tobias Wolff

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The completely solitary self: thats where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. – Seamus Heaney

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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows. – Edmund Burke

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My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. – Philip Levine

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