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“So what else is new?
I am not my own friend.
Time cuts me in two.”
― Czeslaw Milosz, Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004, p. 98
— Feb 15, 2025 10:34AM
I am not my own friend.
Time cuts me in two.”
― Czeslaw Milosz, Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004, p. 98
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John Anders
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“I have always aspired to a more spacious form
that would be free from the claims of poetry or prose and would let us understand each other without exposing the author or reader to sublime agonies.
In the very essence of poetry there is something indecent:
a thing is brought forth which we didn't know we had in us, so we blink our eyes, as if a tiger had sprung out
and stood in the light, lashing his tail.“
— Sep 28, 2024 12:18PM
that would be free from the claims of poetry or prose and would let us understand each other without exposing the author or reader to sublime agonies.
In the very essence of poetry there is something indecent:
a thing is brought forth which we didn't know we had in us, so we blink our eyes, as if a tiger had sprung out
and stood in the light, lashing his tail.“
