"I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme." -- Henry James
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Daily Dose
From Road-Side Dog, by Czeslaw Milosz
TO SING OF GODS AND HEROES
"The difference between the kind of poetry in which an 'I' tells about itself and a poetry which 'sings of gods and heroes' is not great, since in both cases the object of description is mythologized. And yet..."
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