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Matthew Zapruder

Why Poetry

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  • Itzia Ramoshas quoted4 years ago
    Language leaps, impossibly and essentially, across the inescapable void between name and thing.
  • Itzia Ramoshas quoted4 years ago
    Clarity for me in poetry is a kind of generosity, a willingness to be together with the reader in the same place of uncertainty, striving for understanding.
  • Itzia Ramoshas quoted4 years ago
    Clarity for me in poetry is a kind of generosity, a willingness to be together with the reader in the same place of uncertainty, striving for understanding. T
  • Itzia Ramoshas quoted4 years ago
    The poetic symbol operates, as all language does, collectively. Yet it resonates in the mind of a particular reader.
  • Itzia Ramoshas quoted4 years ago
    You will be free. They say it will be cloudy tomorrow but

    they

    Are often wrong.
  • Itzia Ramoshas quoted4 years ago
    Negative capability is just one way of describing this feeling, of being in a place of possibility and freedom that is intimately related to the slippery, provisional, wondrously meaningful nature of language itself
  • Itzia Ramoshas quoted4 years ago
    It is as if what Stevens is proposing is a kind of environmentalism of the imagination, a call for us to actively carve out in our own minds and daily lives a space for imagination that is like a nature preserve or ecologically protected area.
  • Itzia Ramoshas quoted4 years ago
    But as a wave is a force and not the water of which it is composed, which is never the same, so nobility is a force and not the manifestations of which it is composed, which are never the same
  • Itzia Ramoshas quoted4 years ago
    To push away the accepted name of something, and to move, with careful literality, through the language, in a journey of renaming: this is a courageous act.
  • Itzia Ramoshas quoted4 years ago
    following what is beautiful and uncertain in language, we get to a truth that is beyond our ability to articulate when we are attempting to “use” language to convey our ideas or stories.
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