"If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the spleen."

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Too much me is annoying under any circumstance, but too much me in an essay, however personal, would mar the art. My "character" in the essay is more like a perspective, an angle of vision, a complicating factor, a questioning presence. I don't sit on the sidelines or pretend to objectivity; and I'm not afraid to stick my neck out or to be revealing and vulnerable.

— Charles D'Ambrosio