"Poetry comes at things through particulars, by means of images, and it doesn't deal so easily with generalities. Its mode is to cherish without limit. You could say it is idolatrous art. Some poems, the great poems, are true to their specific situations deep down, but they also have a universal quality that lets them live again and again, even in apparently unrelated circumstances." -Galway Kinnell
in this verse, i want to lift up that in idolatrous art, there is an essence of envy and admiration within our recognition that we don't have what we see in the other, or, that we didn't capture it first before the other. that's why i wanted to have "lament" embedded in my previous verse (but i was breaking a rule, then!)
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in this verse, i want to lift up that in idolatrous art, there is an essence of envy and admiration within our recognition that we don't have what we see in the other, or, that we didn't capture it first before the other. that's why i wanted to have "lament" embedded in my previous verse (but i was breaking a rule, then!)
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