“The temptations is simply to assemble language and forgo the hard work of trying to penetrate it. No doubt everything has been brought up before, by someone else, or even by oneself; but if the language is truly worked, freshness is still possible. Worked language is how the writer can ‘make it new’ in the words of Ezra Pound.”
From “Footprints of Greatness on Your Turf” by Pat Conroy, New York Times 4/8/02
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