“I saw the angels lifted like pale straws; I could not stand before those winnowing eyes. And fell, until I found the world again. Now I lack grace to tell what I have seen; For though the head frames words the tongue has none. And who will prove the surgeon to this stone?” RealityPoetryReligionLanguageSpeechMeaningVisionsNaming Of Things Book:Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012 Source: Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012
“Dig -- the mostly uncouth -- language of grace.” LanguageGraceUncouth Book:Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012 Source: Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012
“... one of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds of the collective respond primitively to slogans of incitement.” MindLanguagePropagandaCollectivesTyrantsEngineersGrossSlogansSimplificationIncitement Author:Geoffrey Hill
