1.10.2008

Ponder this

Courtesy of Garrison Keillor, and the divine Writer's Almanac, consider this:

Philip Levine said, "In a curious way, I'm not much interested in language. In my ideal poem, no words are noticed. You look through them into a vision of... just see the people, the place."

3 comments:

rebecca said...

In my experience you have to be completely obsessed with language to make this happen.

Of course, that may be exactly my whole problem!

Froggymama said...

I love Philip Levine. What a beautiful quote. Thank you.

Nicie said...

"They Feed They Lion" is one of the great American poems. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179089