quote, muriel rukeyser, the life of poetry, 7
If there is a feeling that something has been lost, it may be because much has not yet been used, much is still to be found and begun.
quote, muriel rukeyser, the life of poetry, 7
If there is a feeling that something has been lost, it may be because much has not yet been used, much is still to be found and begun.
Whereas all other metaphysical experiences are prefaced by interminable preliminaries, poetry rejects preamble, principle, method or proof. It rejects doubt. It does, however, demand a prelude of silence. First of all, by laying stress on words that are hollow, it silences all prose or song that would leave a continuity of thought or sound in the reader's mind. Then, after the empty sonorities, it produces its moment. It is so that he can construct a complex moment and concentrate into that moment many simultaneities that the poet destroys the simple continuity of sequential time.
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