"True poems flee"
Herbert, Welch, Blandiana, Dickinson, Cane, Kunitz
Zbigniew Herbert (tr. from Polish by Czesław Milosz and Peter Dale Scott):
Lew Welch:
Ana Blandiana (tr. from Romanian by Carla Baricz):
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Emily Dickinson:
To see the Summer Sky / Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— / True Poems flee
Tina Cane:
Stanley Kunitz:
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