Archibald MacLeish
There was a time when I wondered whether the restrained & tense understatement of your prose would not limit you to a certain kind of material. Now no one can wonder that. The world of this book is a complete world, a world of emotion as well as of feeling. To subject the whole experience of a man's soul to the pure & perfect art of your prose is a great, a very great, achievement. ... You become in one book the great novelist of our time.
from a letter to Ernest Hemingway regarding "A Farewell to Arms"
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