Ah well, you may be right, Dom--and I certainly take your point about poetry
as a poke in the eye, even if the point itself feels like a sharp stick.
Probably good for those blinkers I tend to wear--Candice
on 1/8/02 2:37 PM, domfox at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>> He said (when asked if he'd been upset
>> by the news): "The world is what it is, not what we imagine it to be." As
> a
>> poet, I'd have to disagree with him there...
>
> No, no. The world is what it is. Whatever that is. The point about
> imagination is that it will never do for a tent or shroud: the world that is
> not as we imagine it to be keeps jabbing through. The person you could never
> imagine dying dies and is dead and cannot be imagined alive again (or can
> only be imagined alive again). Being a poet is like being poked repeatedly
> in the eye with a sharp stick.
>
> Dominic
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