The tidbit below came from an article by Blake Smith, a Fulbright Scholar in North Macedonia.
"The challenge of poetry is to restore the broken unity of the world by clearing language of its cliched distractions and letting us, thinking and speaking afresh, discover that we are the apertures into and from which the world, in its wholeness, ceaselessly pours."
You can read the full article here:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/beyond-poetry-laura-riding
My thanks to She of the Capri.
(You may wanna remember the above when some idgit standing next to you looks up at the stars and says s/he/they/it feels small.)
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