Relax, KS ;)
Hal
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On May 14, 2007, at 3:15 PM, kasper salonen wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>> Hal
>>
>> "Balthus is a painter about whom nothing is known."
>> --Balthus
>>
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