Dear Mike,
I'm afraid my response to this is -
Okay, that's what you think- now write a poem to make me care what you
think. A statement of philosophy isn't, in itself, a poetic experience, even
if the subject is art or aesthetics.
Kind regards,
grasshopper
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From: "Mike Horwood" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [THE-WORKS] New sub: Imagist Manifesto
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Imagist Manifesto
No ideas but in things;
always the eye focused on things,
but not *more* things than ideas.
And the ideas should be quite big
and interesting, so please make the things
big enough and interesting enough to carry them.
Always beware of this trap:
too many things, too few ideas.
At all times remember that the things
have only been called into existence
in the service of the idea. It is the idea
which is the *raison d´ętre* of the thing.
And above all, remember that the thing itself
is nothing.
Mike
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