I don't like the idea of poetry being tension-filled. tense poetry is
bad poetry.
but I get what he means, & agree, even if not with that choice of metaphor
KS
On 14/05/07, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> "I placed one word beside another and finally with a great deal
> of effort managed to create a whole sentence--naturally not one
> that 'meant something' but one that was composed of word-
> nuances. It was the hidden meaning that I was seeking--a kind
> of Alchimie du Verbe. One word has its meaning and another
> has its own, but when they are brought together something
> strange happens to them: they have an in-between connotation
> at the same time as they retain their original individual meanings . . .
> Poetry is this very tension-filled relationship between the words,
> between the lines, between meanings."
>
> --Gunnar Ekelöf, tr. Auden & Sjöberg
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>
> Hal
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> "Balthus is a painter about whom nothing is known."
> --Balthus
>
> Halvard Johnson
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