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Poetry is a search for the inexplicable.
This short book, where joy and sadness are twins, like the ears of Platero, was written for … I have no idea for whom! … For whomever lyric poets write …
Besides
what have poets, in any case, to do with sin?
They must dance before the Ark of the Covenant
or die! But what am I trying to say?
Three things, according to poets, are considered bliss in Iceland: hot rye-cakes, plump girls, and cold buttermilk.
Poetry = heightened talking. Novel = heightened story. Painting = heightened seeing.
You can't make poetry simply by avoiding clichés.
Poetry is no more, no less than a mosaic of words, so great exactness is required for each one.
Poetry emulates the Cosmos perhaps because the Cosmos itself is the grandest conceivable example of rhythm, rhyme, harmony and concinnity.
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