Adam Kirsch Quotes

So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now?
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Answer Intelligent Mystical Poet Serious Verse Writing
Teaching and writing have tended to proceed on parallel lines, but there have been times when there was indeed carry-over from the classroom to the creative work.
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Classroom Creative Line Parallel Process Teaching Tended Time Writing
The traffic, however, was usually the other way.
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However Other Traffic Usually Way
My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.
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Animated Being Excited Poet Reading Teaching
Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word “myth” only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.
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Believe Mystical Myth Now Poet Poetry Prevent Reality Stories Verse
Which led me into a new appreciation of middle [William Butler ] Yeats, of the short three-beat line and forward-driving syntax, and that paid in, in turn to a poem like Casualty in Field Work.
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Appreciation Beat Causally Field Forward Middle New Paid Short Syntax Work
With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.
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Blood Both Capable Kalamazoo Lamb Long Luck Producing Slouching Towards Unappreciated Writer
The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.
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Adam Zagajewski Answer Beginning Poetry Provide Question
In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting a handle on poetry of plainer speech than I had dwelt with heretofore.
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Appreciation Dwelt Example Learning Myself People Poetry Reading Relish Speech Teaching
The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul, and that every soul should have its own body.
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Body Book Hostile Idea Reader Soul Superstitious Traditional Unadmitted

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