Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Great Regulars: Carl Sandburg (1878-1967),

the American poet gave a beautiful description of immortal poetry: 'Poetry is a spot about half-way between where you listen and where you wonder what it was you heard . . . Poetry is a silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and sunlit blossom of that flower . . . Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during a moment.' In short, poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

from V Sundaram: News Today: My favourite poems and poets-VIII

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