Quote of the Day | 0412
To Ula from Sopot: “A definition of poetry in one sentence—well. We know at least five hundred definitions, but none of them strikes us as both precise and capacious enough. Each expresses the taste of its own age. Inborn skepticism keeps us from trying our hand at our own. But we remember Carl Sandburg’s lovely aphorism: ‘Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.’ Maybe he’ll actually make it one of these days?”
How To (and How Not To) Write Poetry, by Wislawa Szymborska
Wat is poëzie, volgens Wislawa Szymborska
Boeklog over Wislawa Szymborska
[x]#8588 fan dinsdag 12 april 2011 @ 14:34:43
