The pure adventurousness of making metaphors and poems is a condition that must be felt to be believed. I remember how tremendously excited I was when I first formulated to myself the proposition that the poet is not to be limited by the literal truth: that he is not trying to tell the truth: he is trying to make it.
—James Dickey, “Metaphor as Pure Adventure,” Sorties (Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1971), p. 179
said with ease
As if the language suddenly, with ease,
Said things it had laboriously spoken.
—Wallace Stevens, from “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction”
Said things it had laboriously spoken.
—Wallace Stevens, from “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction”
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