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David Ferry [1924-0] American
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Poet


David Ferry is an American poet, translator, and educator. He has published eight collections of his poetry and a volume of literary criticism.

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I've always been - as a teacher, as graduate student, as a student, and I think, really, as a child - I've been interested in poems, but not so much for what the take home pay is, what you might sum up from them in moral or intellectual terms or whatever, but what's in the certain lines and how lines relates to other lines. Teacher
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When you read something, and especially when you're reading compellingly great, that becomes part of your identity, at least while you're reading it. You become changed by reading it.
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I don't think in terms of projects.
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