Monday, September 30, 2013
LINES FOR SEPTEMBER 30
Sunday, September 29, 2013
FROM THE OLD POET SAYS
"Even at its
quietest,
the poem
rages
against death."
*
'Damn you,
poetry!
I have
wasted my life
with waiting."
*
"Like the hawk,
poets
must simply
watch."
Saturday, September 28, 2013
FROM THE OLD POET SAYS
“Not
by the words
a poet uses,
by the words
he doesn't use
you know him.”
*
They asked,
“How can
form form
itself.”
He said,
“The way
seeds grow.”
*
"I have nothing
to do but
nothing. It is
my business."
Friday, September 27, 2013
LINES FOR SEPTEMBER 27
Coal train
half a mile long
heads east
out of the grey void.
A skunk
dead along the road
goes nowhere.
Thursday, September 26, 2013
LINES FOR SEPTEMBER 26
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
LINES FOR SEPTEMBER 25
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
LINES FOR SEPTEMBER 24
Monday, September 23, 2013
LINES FOR SEPTEMBER 23
Sunday, September 22, 2013
FROM THE OLD POET SAYS
“Verbs
would push
nouns
around.
Don't
let them.”
*
"Revise
the poem
until it
disap-
pears, then
go back
one step
and
only
that.”
*
"For a
better
poem,
do not
add, sub-
tract.”
Saturday, September 21, 2013
FROM THE OLD POET SAYS
“The poem
if it's
any good
will argue
with you
at every
turn.”
*
“The lesson
of the poem
is what it
doesn't say.”
*
"Push it til it
pushes
back.”
Friday, September 20, 2013
LINES FOR SEPTEMBER 20
Thursday, September 19, 2013
LINES FOR SEPTEMBER 19
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
LINES FOR SEPTEMBER 18
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
LINES FOR SEPTEMBER 17
Monday, September 16, 2013
LINES FOR SEPTEMBER 16
Sunday, September 15, 2013
THREE from THE OLD POET SAYS
“Mo
men
tum
Mo
ment.”
*
“The mind
does
what the
mind does.”
*
“If it's not
what you want
to say,
say what you
have to.”
Saturday, September 14, 2013
THREE from THE OLD POET SAYS
“The poem
is not so
difficult.
Imagine
who speaks,
to whom.
Imagine
when, where,
why, how.
You say
you can't?
It's your
imagination
that fails you,
not the poem."
*
“The poem is silence
waiting to be born.”
*
“The poet's work -
to make you wonder.”
Friday, September 13, 2013
LINES FOR SEPTEMBER 13
Thursday, September 12, 2013
LINES FOR SEPTEMBER 12
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
LINES FOR SEPTEMBER 11
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
LINES FOR SEPTEMBER 10
Monday, September 09, 2013
LINES FOR SEPTEMBER 9
Sunday, September 08, 2013
THREE from THE OLD POET SAYS
“What you
want is
not what
you want.”
*
The poem's
tasks -
to turn, turn
back.
*
“One, one
hundred?
Whatever
is enough
for what
it is.”
Saturday, September 07, 2013
THREE from THE OLD POET SAYS
“An ear
for language,
this
talking to
myself.”
*
“Not always
which words
but always
which order.”
*
“If our words are not
of this world, then
what are they of?”
Friday, September 06, 2013
LINES FOR SEPTEMBER 6
Thursday, September 05, 2013
LINES FOR SEPTEMBER 5
Wednesday, September 04, 2013
LINES FOR SEPTEMBER 4
Tuesday, September 03, 2013
LINES FOR SEPTEMBER 3
Monday, September 02, 2013
LINES FOR SEPTEMBER 2
Sunday, September 01, 2013
THREE from THE OLD POET SAYS
“How many
ways to
break them,
all
the lines
to be
broken?”
*
“Poets are
pilots
with no place
to land.
May Day,
we say.
May Day.”
*
“If you can't
shut up, you
are not
a poet.”
