"it is idolatry not indifference"
Dickinson, Dixon, Hayden, Šalamun, Mead, Popa, Gilbert
Emily Dickinson:
I must wait / a few Days / before seeing / you—You are / too momentous. / But remember / it is idolatry / not indifference. / Emily
Melvin Dixon:
Robert Hayden:
Tomaž Šalamun (trans. Michael Biggins):
Jane Mead:
Vasko Popa (trans. Anne Pennington):
Jack Gilbert:
There isn’t any one correct way to write poetry. Poetry is a word like love: an endless confusion of different things all warped into one word because no vocabulary of discrimination exists.
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