07/07/2024
THE PROMPTER ROOM
Posted on July 7, 2024 by magiclampedits
For Sunday, July 7, 2024:
A mysterious quickening inhabits the depths of any good poem—protean, elusive, alive in its own right…. We feel something stir, shiver, swim its way into the world when a good poem opens its eyes. Poetry’s work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving…. The eyes and ears must learn to abandon the habits of useful serving and take up instead a participatory delight in their own ends. A work of art is not a piece of fruit lifted from a tree branch: it is a ripening collaboration of artist, receiver, and world.
~~ Jane Hirshfield, TEN WINDOWS: HOW GREAT POEMS TRANSFORM THE WORLD