Saturday, November 29, 2014

ALFRED DE MUSSET

Each memorable verse of a true poet has twice or three times the written content.

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ELI KHAMAROV

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

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PATRICK KAVANAGH (3)

A man innocently dabbles in words and rhymes and finds that it is his life.

Among your earthiest words, the angels stray...

He read me Whitman, of whom he was very fond, and also Emerson. I didn't like Whitman, and said so. I always thought him a writer who tried to bully his way to prophecy. Of Emerson at the time I had no opinions to offer. I found him out later to be a sugary humbug. His transcendental bunkum sickened me.



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BREYTEN BREYTENBACH (2)

A part of the year I live in Paris, but I hardly have any contact with French literary circles. I have always regarded contemporary French poetry as narcistic. As if Paris would be the centre of the universe.


I don't believe meditating influences writing or painting. I do it because it stabilizes my daily life to some extent. Yet I think writing and especially painting are ways of meditation.




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BENNO BARNARD

Most poetry borrows its characteristics -what we experience as 'poetic'- from images that are au fond word-plays.



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