Mary Karr on poetry
Oct. 6th, 2022 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
radiantfractureJust putting this here so that I can come back and think about it later.
"Which is how poetry works. You start in a scared place and get ziplined somewhere truer. The real purpose of poetry, W.H. Auden said, is disenchantment. Not to throw fairy dust in somebody’s eyes; it’s stripping away what’s false so you can see what’s true underneath."
(Syracuse University commencement speech, 2015)
"Which is how poetry works. You start in a scared place and get ziplined somewhere truer. The real purpose of poetry, W.H. Auden said, is disenchantment. Not to throw fairy dust in somebody’s eyes; it’s stripping away what’s false so you can see what’s true underneath."
(Syracuse University commencement speech, 2015)
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Date: 2022-10-10 10:52 pm (UTC)