the basic matter...
“Each poet, in his own language, states that the basic matter of poetry comes not from the self, but from the world.”
– from “Poetry and the Mind of Indirection,”
Jane Hirshfield
I roam the whole universe from here. - Han-shan
“Each poet, in his own language, states that the basic matter of poetry comes not from the self, but from the world.”
– from “Poetry and the Mind of Indirection,”
Jane Hirshfield
Posted by sam of the ten thousand things @ 11:10 AM
Labels: notes on writing
We make a harvest of loneliness and desiring in the blank wasteland of the cosmos. - Jack Gilbert
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