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Quotation of the Day for March 11, 2016"He once said the thing which I would normally say to any poet--that if you really want your poem to work, the usage of adjectives should be minimal; but you should stuff it as much as you can with nouns--even the verbs should suffer. If you cast over a poem a certain magic veil that removes adjectives and verbs, when you remove the veil the paper still should be dark with nouns." - Joseph Brodsky, poet. [http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3184/the-art-of-poetry-no-28-joseph-brodsky] Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 10, 2016  |
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