I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
From A. R. Ammons
If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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