- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Exactly The Same
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
- Nov 07, 2020
Only silence perfects silence.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
- Lines
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- Nov 07, 2020
In nature there are few sharp lines.
- Interior
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
- Becomes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
- Blank
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- Nov 07, 2020
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
- Laws
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020