Collage’s parts always seem to be competing for a place in some unfinished scene
Let us hope the time will come when language is most efficiently used
where it is being most efficiently misused.
I’m not interested in myself per se. I’m interested in myself as theme carrier, as host.
I think it’s a poetry that comes out of the stuff of the poet’s personal life,
but she’s trying to render this experience in more general and inclusive,
or what used to be called universal,
The center of the artistic process — for me — is the attempt to transform
a particular feeling, insight, sorrow into a metaphor and then
make that metaphor ramify so it holds everything, everything in the world.
“To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wildflower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”
Every person has within themself the entire human condition.
Every person has within themself the entire human condition.
What is true for you in your private heart is true for all….