The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have b...

The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading.

quote by Archibald MacLeish
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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