The poet cannot be separated from place. Even placelessness becomes a place.
minnahas quoted2 months ago
Poetry was not under the ownership or province of Europe or New England, though it often appeared otherwise. Something was born in that realization, given life.
minnahas quoted2 months ago
Or now that the world is neither flat nor round but in the shape of a spiral, the shape of the mind of God.
minnahas quoted2 months ago
in a land that had been taken from us—a land no one could own.
minnahas quoted2 months ago
Half of her soul was enmeshed in the internal battle of what am I in this place of loss and heartbreak? How do I bear the weight of my soul?
minnahas quoted2 months ago
his poetry taught me that becoming human was the most honorable task of poetry
minnahas quoted2 months ago
myth as an archetypal reality, not as falsehood
minnahas quoted2 months ago
Here is where poetry showed up, at this intersection of a glimmer of self-knowledge and the need to make art of whatever materials are at hand
minnahas quoted2 months ago
Always my art took place in private places, in the dark, far from public view. Even then, it was what I wanted to do with my life, “to be an artist,” I always answered.
Елена Захарьеваhas quotedlast year
There is no poetry where there are no mistakes, said the next messenger. I am a human being, I said.