Richard Jeffrey Newman's Miscellany

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from “The Necessity to Speak,” by Sam Hamill

“The true poet gives up the self. The I of my poem is not me. It is the first person impersonal, it is permission for you to enter the experience which we name Poem."

—Sam Hamill, “The Necessity to Speak” in A Poet’s Work