Thursday, March 03, 2005
From Denise Levertov's essay "Work and Inspiration: Inviting the Muse" (from the book The Poet in the World, p.25):
"For the artist--every kind of artist, and, I feel sure, not only the artist but everyone engaged in any kind of creative activity--is as enamoured of the process of making as of the thing made."
From DL's essay "Origins of a Poem," (p. 54), "Writing poetry is a process of dsicovery, revealing inherent music, the music of correspondences, the music of inscape. It parallels what, in a person's life, is called individuation: the evolution of consciousness toward wholeness, not an isolation of intellectual awareness but an awareness involving the whole self, a *knowing*..., a touching, a 'being in touch.'"
From DL's essay, "Great Possessions" (p. 93-94): "We need a new realization of *the artist as translator*...the translation of experience, and the translation of the reader into other worlds."
Rilke, in Selected Letters (translated by R.F.C. Hull (London, Macmillan, 1946, p. 324): "If a thing is to speak to you, you must for a certain time regard it as the only thing that exists, the unique phenomenon that your diligent and exclusive love has placed at the center of the universe..."
"For the artist--every kind of artist, and, I feel sure, not only the artist but everyone engaged in any kind of creative activity--is as enamoured of the process of making as of the thing made."
From DL's essay "Origins of a Poem," (p. 54), "Writing poetry is a process of dsicovery, revealing inherent music, the music of correspondences, the music of inscape. It parallels what, in a person's life, is called individuation: the evolution of consciousness toward wholeness, not an isolation of intellectual awareness but an awareness involving the whole self, a *knowing*..., a touching, a 'being in touch.'"
From DL's essay, "Great Possessions" (p. 93-94): "We need a new realization of *the artist as translator*...the translation of experience, and the translation of the reader into other worlds."
Rilke, in Selected Letters (translated by R.F.C. Hull (London, Macmillan, 1946, p. 324): "If a thing is to speak to you, you must for a certain time regard it as the only thing that exists, the unique phenomenon that your diligent and exclusive love has placed at the center of the universe..."
// posted by Scoop @ 7:57 PM 
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