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From: Liz
Date: 6/13/2001
Time: 5:03:05 PM
Remote Name: 204.155.16.100
Supposedly it's in "The Complete Poems" p. 317
Here's a few: excerpts from "Tentative (first model) Definitions of Poetry"
Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths. Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it. Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations. Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words Poetry is an art practised with the terribly plastic material of human language." Poetry is an echo asking a shadow dancer to be a partner." Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly the air." Poetry is a theorum of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring." Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it." Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment." Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?'"