Carol Frost:
Stanley Kunitz:
T.S. Eliot:
When a poet’s mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man’s experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. The latter falls in love, or reads Spinoza, and these experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.
Robert Walser (trans. Susan Bernofsky):
Shreela Ray:
Robert Hayden:
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