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David Lehman
American
Poet
Born:
1948
Brilliant
Envy
Health
Song
Will
You
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Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
David Lehman
Words
Will
Single
Field
Enter
Spin
Magnetic
No-One
Proprietary
Like
How
Dictate
Fixed
Orbit
Owns
Them
Meaning
Used
Electron
Initial
Away
Right
Wider
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.
David Lehman
Today
Will
Criticism
Heights
Cripple
Worst
Wound
Spirit
Determined
Poetry
Spiteful
New
Him
Does
Spur
Artist
Intent
Inflict
Mean
Her
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