"melting lords of death"
Lispector, Rhys, Flint, Wright, Milosz, Gilbert
Clarice Lispector (trans. Elizabeth Lowe and Earl Fitz):
Jean Rhys:
When I was excited about life I didn't want to write at all. I've never written about being happy. I didn't want to. Besides, I don't think you can describe being happy. I've never had a long period of being happy. Do you think anybody has? I think you can be peaceful for quite a long time, but to be happy is different. I think if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write. If I had my life all over again and could choose.
Roland Flint:
James Wright:
But a great poet is a disturbance. If poetry means anything, it means heart, liver, and soul. If great poetry means anything at all, it means disturbance, secret disturbance....It is bad enough to be miserable; but to be happy, how far beyond shock it is. To be alive, with all one's unexpected senses, and yet to face the fact of unhappiness....I want poetry to make me happy, but the poetry I want should deal with the hell of our lives or else it leaves me cold.
Czeslaw Milosz:
Jack Gilbert:
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