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Tag: Degas

Posted on April 6, 2005October 13, 2020

Poems are Made of Words

This entry is part 7 of 10 in the series SAIC Class Notes

Poems are Made of Words

Class notes, SAIC, 1991

At a dinner party, Dore Ashton on  Degas – complaining about working on a sonnet – he had lots of ideas, but…

Paul Valerie – “Poems are made, not of ideas, but of words.”

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