Top 5 Stephen Burt Quotes (2025 Update)

Stephen Burt Quote: “One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it’s your choice. Don’t wait to long or your time will be up.”

1. “One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it’s your choice. Don’t wait to long or your time will be up.”

Stephen Burt Quote: “To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical.”

2. “To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical.”

3. “In pursuing certain virtues – colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language – the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others.”

— Stephen Burt

4. “Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.”

— Stephen Burt

5. “Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic, rhyming English tradition – his inventive lines have this absence at their back.”

— Stephen Burt

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