My way of knowing experience is to formulate a metaphor which describes or encapsulates a particular moment; it is a way of getting at the truth. And a way of paying attention, of reading the world.
—Mark Doty, Heaven’s Coast: A Memoir (Harper Perennial, 1996)
most accurate instrument
To speak of Poetry is to speak of the most subtle, the most delicate, and most accurate instrument by which to measure Life.
H.T. Tobias A. Wright's introduction to the Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (1918), translated by Jessie Lamont.
H.T. Tobias A. Wright's introduction to the Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (1918), translated by Jessie Lamont.
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