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I’m afraid that well-meaning, earnest teaching gives too many people the idea that poetry is primarily a test to see if you can say something smart. The main thing you need to learn about poetry is that is it primarily words that sound good when you say them. Poetry must begin with the experience of a poem. People analyze and interpret their families all their lives...but it’s not how you become attached to them.
—Robert Pinsky
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

On meaning (Siegel)

Nothing means anything except in books.... Meaning is demeaning.
Lee Siegel, Love In A Dead Language

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