Shelby Foote: That’s right. I don’t know, personally, of any writer who didn’t start out trying to be a poet, and I think this is right and exactly as it should be. I haven’t known any good prose writers who didn’t give up poetry.
They gave it up.
John Graham: I remember Faulkner saying he gave it up because he wasn’t good enough.
Shelby Foote: Called himself a failed poet…
— May 15, 2025 12:20PM
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