Quote du Jour: Poetry

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from “On Poetry and Language” – Robert Lax

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(language is a
phoenix

poetry a phoenix

reborn
from its
own

ashes

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(let the language
fall to ashes

& poetry
will arise)

let the language
fall to ashes

& new language
will arise

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Poetry may express
the poet

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It may serve as discourse
from man to man

More truly it moves
between man & God

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The psalmist David
sang for the Lord,

& the spirit of the
Lord replied

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