12.06.2010

unseasonal verse

It's a good idea to write a poem about the first of May in November or December, when you feel a desperate need for May.

—Vladimir Mayakovsky, How Are Verses Made? (1926)

1 comment:

vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras) said...

What a coincidence! Some disowned ephemera from a few years back:

EPHEMERA

It's a good idea to write a poem about the first of May in November or December, when you feel a desperate need for May.
--Vladimir Mayakovsky, from How Are Verses Made?

I fly from the present by two routes, that of the past
and that of the future.

--Lamennais, Correspondence, II, 378.

Which is to say

To
Morrow

May

Fly
Away

To
Day

Already
Yesterday.