"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
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
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try it, or better, try a ladder-- rise in the present
Pablo Neruda, sort of my translation (I have a parallel edition with the Spanish on one side and English on the other and I adapted to suit my fancy) from Ode to the Present
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Pablo Neruda, sort of my translation (I have a parallel edition with the Spanish on one side and English on the other and I adapted to suit my fancy) from Ode to the Present
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