It’s Hard to Get ‘Poetry From Blubber’

It’s my favorite quote about writing. Can you guess who said it? No fair Googling.

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Writers are always trying to wrest poetry from blubber. Usually, from their own blubber. If you’re a book critic, as I am I, you also need to wrest it at times from someone else’s blubber — an incoherent author’s words that you need to make intelligible in a…