"half the time trying to wave them away"
Duncan, Justice, Rothko, Schiele, Meyers, Clifton, di Prima
Robert Duncan:
The secret of the poetic art lies in the keeping of time, to keep designing or discovering lines of melodic coherence. Counting the measures, marking them off, calculating the sequences; the whole intensified in the poet’s sense of its limitation…one image may recall another, finding depth in the resounding.
Donald Justice:
Mark Rothko:
Egon Schiele:
I, the eternal child—I made sacrifices to others, those who were far away or did not see me, the seer. I brought gifts, sent my eyes…toward them, I made the roads before them easier to travel, and—did not save them. Soon, some of them recognized the gestures of the visionary, and then they asked no more.
Bert Meyers:
Lucille Clifton:
Diane di Prima:
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