Thursday, December 24, 2009

How to appreciate poetry

Things I woud like to remember when I read the next poem:

Charles Simic - Poems are other people's snaphots in which we recognize ourselves.
Donald Hall - Literature starts being personal but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.
Literature is human inside talking to human inside.
Shakespeare - The truest poetry is he most feigning.
Oscar Wilde - Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell the truth
Ted Hughes - Perhaps its the need to keep it hidden that .. makes it poetry

Alone with all that could Happen, David Jauss

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