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on the Persistence of Poetry (Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin)

“There is a relation between language and truth that is very subtle and is always changing. For the reader or listener who can appreciate the constant shifting, each new poem one finds is a fresh statement of that relation.  Because … Continue reading

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…a mass of bright fragments (Paul Valery)

“I sense all the things that I write here, these associations, as an attempt to read a text, and this text contains a mass of bright fragments.” –Paul Valery [Context: In 1897, Paul Valery abandoned publishing to focus on his … Continue reading

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