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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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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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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poets personality. – Mark Strand

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I love writing poetry because poetry can be anything you want it to be — just like daydreaming. There are no rules except those in your heart and your own pen. – Terri Guillemets, “Quiet time with my soul,” 1998

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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values. – A. R. Ammons

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