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"One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at life: a capacity for surprise. It’s easy to become so mired in our likes or dislikes that we can no longer recall that person who once responded to poems—and to people—without any preconceived notions of what we wanted them to be."

— Christian Wiman, Poetry, October 2012

In Poetry’s centennial issue, find an edited version of the introduction to The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine (University of Chicago Press, October 2012). (via poetrysince1912)

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