Toward individuality
In repeating and misstating what others have said,
in repeating and altering what others have done,
we deviate toward individuality—only toward.
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Poetry was born with the human. Poetry is the first response to the awareness that we are mortal beings and that we will die, it’s the first response to the only unchangeable: that we are doomed to die. Poetry is the DNA of humanity, it is prior to writing, it is before the printing press, it is before the book, it is before the Internet, it will survive in different forms, and it will die when the last human being contemplates the last of the sunsets. Without poetry, there is no art; poetry is what is behind every masterpiece.
—Raúl Zurita
—Raúl Zurita
Monday, July 18, 2016
in repeating and altering what others have done,
we deviate toward individuality—only toward.
