"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
This comes from Richard Hugo's "Statements of Faith" in The Triggering Town. I tried to play it off of 23 & 24, namely, the self trying to do and not to do, or the self spinning in circles to see the world, is about defining how it feels about itself, and thus trying to understand the world. Does that make any sense?
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This comes from Richard Hugo's "Statements of Faith" in The Triggering Town. I tried to play it off of 23 & 24, namely, the self trying to do and not to do, or the self spinning in circles to see the world, is about defining how it feels about itself, and thus trying to understand the world. Does that make any sense?
Yup. You rock.
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