(1909–1987)
Austrian-born U.S. poet and rare books librarian“I write the way I shave, going over and over the same territory, cutting, scraping, smoothing—and forever finding rough spots right under my nose.”
more infosource: “Aphorisms by Felix Pollak” (Appendix D), in Arrows of Longing (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998), 227.
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“‘I’d love to become an introvert,'” said the extrovert, ‘if I could only be sure that people will learn of my conversion.'”
more infosource: “Aphorisms by Felix Pollak” (Appendix D), in Arrows of Longing (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998), 227.
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Felix Pollak