—Jorge Luis Borges
Monday, April 2, 2018
On Pure Craft vs. Learned Craft
"In this country, though, there is a tendency to regard any kind of
writing—especially the writing of poetry—as a game of style. I have
known many poets here who have written well—very fine stuff—with
delicate moods and so on—but if you talk with them, the only thing they
tell you is smutty stories or they speak of politics in the way that
everybody does, so that really their writing turns out to be kind of
sideshow. They had learned writing in the way that a man might learn to
play chess or to play bridge. They were not really poets or writers at
all. It was a trick they had learned, and they had learned it
thoroughly. They had the whole thing at their finger ends. But most of
them—except four or five, I should say—seemed to think of life as having
nothing poetic or mysterious about it. They take things for granted.
They know that when they have to write, then, well, they have to
suddenly become rather sad or ironic."
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