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	<TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD><B>The Art of Poetry No. 17</B></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theparisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/3970"><DIV><IMG border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="PDF" src="http://www.theparisreview.com/images/imgPDF.gif" /> <A href="http://www.theparisreview.com/media/3970_AUDEN.pdf">Download a PDF of the full interview<IMG border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="" src="http://www.theparisreview.com/images/btnOrderArrow.gif" /></A></DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.theparisreview.com/literature.php" href="http://www.theparisreview.com/literature.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.theparisreview.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theparisreview.com/literature.php"><TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" border="0" align="left"><TBODY><TR><TD><A href="http://www.theparisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/4867"><IMG width="80" vspace="2" hspace="0" border="0" alt="Truman Capote" src="http://www.theparisreview.com/images/media/capote-t.gif" /></A></TD><TD><IMG width="5" height="1" border="0" alt="" src="" /></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><A href="http://www.theparisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/4867">TRUMAN CAPOTE</A>
<B>1957</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theparisreview.com/literature.php"><TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" border="0" align="left"><TBODY><TR><TD><A href="http://www.theparisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/4738"><IMG width="80" vspace="2" hspace="0" border="0" alt="T. S. Eliot" src="http://www.theparisreview.com/images/media/4738_TN_eliot-t.gif" /></A></TD><TD><IMG width="5" height="1" border="0" alt="" src="" /></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><A href="http://www.theparisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/4738">T. S. ELIOT</A>
<B>1959</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theparisreview.com/literature.php"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top"><TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" border="0" align="left"><TBODY><TR><TD><A href="http://www.theparisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/5053"><IMG width="80" vspace="2" hspace="0" border="0" alt="Ralph Ellison" src="http://www.theparisreview.com/images/media/ellison-r.gif" /></A></TD><TD><IMG width="5" height="1" border="0" alt="" src="" /></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><A href="http://www.theparisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/5053">RALPH ELLISON</A>
<B>1955</B>
<BR />“[African-American folklore] is like jazz; there's no inherent problem which prohibits understanding but the assumptions brought to it.”</TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theparisreview.com/literature.php"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top"><TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" border="0" align="left"><TBODY><TR><TD><A href="http://www.theparisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/4954"><IMG width="80" vspace="2" hspace="0" border="0" alt="William Faulkner" src="http://www.theparisreview.com/images/media/faulkner-w.gif" /></A></TD><TD><IMG width="5" height="1" border="0" alt="" src="" /></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><A href="http://www.theparisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/4954">WILLIAM FAULKNER</A>
<B>1956</B>
<BR />“The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.”</TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theparisreview.com/literature.php"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="50%" valign="top"><TABLE width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD valign="top"><A href="http://www.theparisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/5197">FRANCOIS MAURIAC</A>
<B>1953</B>
<BR />“Sartre expressed the despair of this generation. He did not create it, but he gave it a justification and a style.”</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theparisreview.com/literature.php"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top"><A href="http://www.theparisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/4933">DOROTHY PARKER</A>
<B>1956</B>
<BR />“Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.' ”</TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theparisreview.com/literature.php"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top"><TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" border="0" align="left"><TBODY><TR><TD><A href="http://www.theparisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/5114"><IMG width="80" vspace="2" hspace="0" border="0" alt="William Styron" src="http://www.theparisreview.com/images/media/styron-w.gif" /></A></TD><TD><IMG width="5" height="1" border="0" alt="" src="" /></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><A href="http://www.theparisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/5114">WILLIAM STYRON</A>
<B>1954</B>
<BR />On when he writes: “I like to stay up late at night and get drunk and sleep late. . . . The afternoon is the only time I have left . . . ”</TD></tr></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B9B40603-E077-48E9-B047-C1E4CB001C1F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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