Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.... Read it a hundred times it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing ... is discovering.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books
Poetry is what gets lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
Poetry is what is lost in translation.
It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal woundthat he will never get over it.
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