Category Archives: Art
Poet Gregory Orr; a brief excerpt from a recent “On Being” interview…..
“……But a person in crisis, an individual in crisis, is someone who has been bowled over by some kind of crisis. And what poetry says to us is, you know what? Turn your confusion, turn your world into words. … Continue reading
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Tagged Gregory Orr, Kathleen M. Dlugos, On Being with Krista Tippett, Painting, Poetry
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Re-Reading C.D. Wright, 10:30 p.m.
“. . . That the poems we snatch from the language must bear the habit of our thinking. That their arrangement strengthens the authority on which each separate line is laid. That they extend the line into perpetuity. That they … Continue reading
Thinking about Wallace Stevens….
“What is the poet’s subject? It is his sense of the world. The truth is that a man’s (one’s) sense of the world dictates his subjects to him, and that this sense is derived from his personality, his … Continue reading
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Tagged Creative Process, Poetry, Wallace Stevens
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