On Mar 8, 2004, at 5:26 PM, david wheatley wrote:
> 'All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody,
> is prayer.' (Beckett)
maybe that's why he was a good prosodist & a indifferent poet.
Let me go again to Celan, with a quote from his journals which I used
as epigraph for my book POASIS :
"'Writing as a form of prayer,' we read -- deeply moved -- in Kafka.
This, however, does not mean that praying comes first: writing does --
one cannot do it with hands folded."
Pierre
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