No ugly way to speak
Why is it that we can speak beautifully of ugliness but there is no ugly way to speak of beauty?
Labels: thought
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
— M. C. Richards
Friday, October 27, 2023
