The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech. For true poetry is never speech but always a song.
Herbert Read
Poetry is a mental activity in which there is no time interval between the words and the thought. And it mat inhere in a single word or phrase.
poetry thetimes time
poetry
Poetry is creative expression. By creative I mean original. Which raises the question how are we to recognise originality when we see it. It is an instinctive matter.
You must log in to post a comment.
There are no comments yet.