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" But often it's the inexact, the awful, the mistaken linguistic turn that manages to say the right thing because it unmoors us from our perceived relationship to the subject about which we're trying to write. Often, poetry is enriched by saying precisely what we didn't set out to say. (D. A. Powell) "

Dorothy Allison , The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House


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Dorothy Allison quote : But often it's the inexact, the awful, the mistaken linguistic turn that manages to say the right thing because it unmoors us from our perceived relationship to the subject about which we're trying to write. Often, poetry is enriched by saying precisely what we didn't set out to say. (D. A. Powell)