Tuesday, March 20, 2007

News at Eleven: [Zbigniew Herbert] conceived of poems

not as machines to chronicle and evoke emotion but as gestures of hard-earned illumination, shards of learning, core samples of (mostly) Western civilization:

only blood
busy with scansion of dark tautologies
binds together distant shores
with a thread of mutual agreement

from The Philadelphia Inquirer: The impersonal poet, sharing rays of light

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