Friday 12 June 2020

Jade Wallace : part four

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t?

I heard once that poetry is the language that refuses all other categories. That's not a direct quote and I don't know whom I'm paraphrasing but I like that description. It suggests that poetry exists to try to fulfill any unmet needs we have for words. (Sometimes what we need is for words to be completely undone.)

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