“In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.” IdeasPoetryOrderPrinciplesCasesPoetRoseFormulasCombatAtomsSplitsDefiniteVersusBrutalityObscurityDissociation Author:Ezra Pound
“Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the very start oriented toward expression, and terminates in a word proffered, it wants to speak; whereas mystical because it emanates from the deepest longing of the spirit bent on knowing, tends of itself toward silence and internal fruition. Poetic experience is busy with the created world and the enigmatic and innumerable relations of existents with one another, not with the Principle of Being.” WorldWantSpiritPoetrySpeakSilencePrinciplesCreativityKnowingPoetExpressionRelationLongingBusyInternalsPoeticMysticalBentFruitionEmanateEnigmaticMystical Experiences Author:Jacques Maritain
“All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.” GrowsDifferencesPrinciplesGrowing UpPoetBabyInfant Author:Sharyn McCrumb