Somebody Put It In Words …

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive.

It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

~ Basil Bunting

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2 Responses to Somebody Put It In Words …

  • Ananta Androscoggin says:

    The poet is the unsatisfied child who dares to ask the difficult question which arises from the schoolmaster’s answer to his simple question, and then the still more difficult question which arises from that.
    – Robert Graves

  • Ananta Androscoggin says:

    forgot to type my comment before I clicked to post the quote. Here it goes:

    Here’s something that might go well with the quote you posted.

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