Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Great Regulars: When I think of Osip Mandelstam,

I'm convinced that writing poetry is a subversive activity--that all activities of the imagination are subversive--whether the art is published or unpublished. (Why is it so few understand this fact as well as political tyrants do?)

from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: Poetry

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