The Proverbs of one Wallace Stevens, poet, lawyer and insurance man.
The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence
which takes its place as life's redemption.
All poetry is experimental poetry.
One reads poetry with one's nerves.
A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.
Aristotle is a skeleton.
Thought tends to collect in pools.
Poetry must resist the intelligence almost successfully.
One cannot spend one's time in being modern
when there are so many more important things to be.
2008/5/4 andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>:
> 'All poetry is experimental poetry' ... (Who said that? Please tell me, b/c
> if you like.) Andrew
>
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David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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