Great Regulars: I want, too, from both [Giorgio] Agamben

and [Jay] Parini, a more forthright acknowledgment that reading "the word" entails something of the difficulty of writing it. Coleridge says in Biographia Literaria that one of the properties of poetry is that of "exciting a more continuous and equal attention, than the language of prose aims at, whether colloquial or written."

from Powells: Review-A-Day: Congenial Disorder: Why should we look for comfort in poetry?

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