All I ask the haters--and I, too, am one--is.... : Quote by Ben Lerner

“ All I ask the haters--and I, too, am one--is that they strive to perfect their contempt, even consider bringing it to bear on poems, where it will be deepened, not dispelled, and where, by creating a place for possibility and present absences (like unheard melodies), it might come to resemble love. ”

Ben Lerner
  • From : The Hatred of Poetry
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