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Poem: Catastrophe Is Next to Godliness
theatlantic.com
“…the stammerings of an old man who does not seem to have achieved a full psychic victory over an awkward adolescence…”
Eugene Thacker • Infinite Resignation
Tradition and the Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot | Poetry Foundation
T. S. Eliotpoetryfoundation.org
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
T. S. Eliot • Tradition and the Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot | Poetry Foundation
When by mutation a new rose is born in a garden, all the gardeners rejoice. They isolate the rose, tend it, foster it. But there is no gardener for men. This little Mozart will be shaped like the rest by the common stamping machine. This little Mozart will love shoddy music in the stench of night dives. This little Mozart is condemned.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry • Wind, Sand And Stars (Harvest Book)
Back in Brooklyn, a poet-nurse to the Union dying writes: A leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. Jørgen never reads these words.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
you likely know his classic children’s books on animals going rogue ( Stuart Little , Charlotte’s Web ).