Craft: Tautology

Bell, Davis, Dickinson, Kunitz, Rich, Williams, Jarrell

Marvin Bell:

At heart, poetic beauty is tautological: it defines its terms and exhausts them.

Stanley Kunitz:

Polarize your contradictions!

In Dialectical Behavioral Therapy there are six levels of validation, and the highest one is known as “Radical Genuineness,” which is communicating with others as equals, and being a real, live human being. Enclosed in…