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Babette Deutsch
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The poet . . . like the lover . . . is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.
—Babette Deutsch, Poetry at the Mid-Century

Posted on June 2, 2003 at 4:30 PM

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