Friday, July 03, 2020

“the world everybody else lives in”

A poet’s perspective, according to Mary Ruefle:

There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to have in common is their yearning to enter this world.

source: “Someone Reading a Book Is a Sign of Order in the World”
an essay by Mary Ruefle
The Planet on the Table: poets on the reading life
edited by Sharon Bryan and William Olsen
Sarabande Books, Louisville, KY

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