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Poetry is an expression of the Centering of consciousness… It helps to enliven in us the awareness that all beings partake in each other… When the sages of old used to say that poets are lawgivers, they did not mean that you could find legal advice in heroic couplets somewhere. I think they meant that the perceptions of the poets follow the natural laws of the universe as organism, and that to overlook the laws implicit in poetic perception is to risk estrangement from life. It is for this reason that we devote ourselves to a study of poetry, that we may sensitize ourselves to the wordless laws of being.
— M. C. Richards
Sunday, December 25, 2016

As though nothing (Shepard)

It seemed to him all they had undergone and felt and done would one day be diminished and relegated to mere narrative, its heroes oversimplified or their heroic natures overborne by the mundanity of detail, a story so degraded, so shorn of wonderment by telling and re-telling that—despite love and redemption, suffering and loss, mystery and death—it would be in the end as though nothing had happened.

Lucius Shepard, from "The Skull"

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