James Tate Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von James Tate:

If you laughed earlier in the poem, and I bring you close to tears in the end, that's the best.

If you laughed earlier in the poem, and I bring you close to tears in the end, that's the best.

James Tate

I can't know entirely what's at stake beforehand; you find out as you go. I love to take a poem, for instance, that starts with something seemingly frivolous or inconsequential and then grows in gravity until by the end it's something very serious.

James Tate