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- How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of…
- I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of…
- In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words…
- Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine…
- For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there…
- What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
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