The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020
Poetry fearlessly enters the horizon of the unknowable, the fuzzy. It lives there. That is why it is so significant in an uncertain, threatened time like ours.
Mike Kauschke • The Poetic Art of Living in a Time Between Worlds - Emerge
the significance doesn’t matter. The historical significance deadens it. Across those unbridgeable distances—between bird and painter, painting and viewer—I hear only too well what’s being said to me, a psst from an alleyway as Hobie put it, across four hundred years of time, and it’s really very personal and specific. It’s there in the light-rinse
... See moreDonna Tartt • The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Poetry makes our thinking and being flexible, prepares us for surprises, invites us into risk, into a complex interplay of references and meanings.