Every poem has the right to ask for a new poetics.
—Anna Swir, Talking to My Body (Copper Canyon Press, 1996), translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan
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metre-making argument
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, — a
thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal,
it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet"
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet"
ahead of its time
And poetry, which is generally ahead of its time, may go so far ahead as to seem behind in time.
—Eugenio Montale, Poet In Our Time (Marion Boyars, 1979)
—Eugenio Montale, Poet In Our Time (Marion Boyars, 1979)
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