Tuesday, September 26, 2006

News at Eleven: Discussion of the craft of poetry

is limited, but [Czeslaw] Milosz did speak of the muselike voice he called his daimonion, or "little demon": "I cannot imagine writing poetry without the first impulse coming from him. . . .Basically, what is received . . . is incantation, a certain rhythm."

from San Francisco Chronicle: Conversations with a misunderstood genius

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