The Line of Truth

Monday, September 8, 2008

In John Updike's predictably wonderful piece on the master William Maxwell in The New Yorker, the following line stands out—a line Maxwell wrote about the poet Louise Bogan:

In whatever she wrote, the line of truth was exactly superimposed on the line of feeling.

2 comments:

Holly said...

That is a marvelously expressive line.

Beth Kephart said...

Thank you.

Holly and Ivy. :)

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