Posts Tagged Paul Valery
A-Listers and B-Sides: When to Abandon Your Poems
Posted by Ron Hayes in How Do you Know You're Done, Ron, The Craft Of Writing, The Writer's Life on January 8, 2014
by Ron Hayes The late French poet Paul Valery (1871-1945) is credited with having said, “A poem is never finished, only abandoned,” which, in my experience, is about as profound a concept as I can find. I think it’s true, art—and writing in particular—is often abandoned rather than completed, and regardless of whether it was […]
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