Showing posts with label hear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hear. Show all posts
12.22.2025
heard them coming
I could hear your rhymes coming, and by the time they landed, I had already found several preferable alternatives.
3.15.2023
2.20.2023
don't want to hear
Write beautifully what people don’t want to hear.
—Frederick Seidel, The Paris Review, The Art of Poetry No. 95, (ISSUE 190, FALL 2009), interviewed by Jonathan Galassi
—Frederick Seidel, The Paris Review, The Art of Poetry No. 95, (ISSUE 190, FALL 2009), interviewed by Jonathan Galassi
5.27.2019
8.22.2017
duly noted
It’s not important what others in the workshop say about your poem, it’s only important what you hear enough to take note of.
9.17.2014
one conversation
Much has the human experienced.
Named many of the heavenly ones,
Since we have been a conversation
And can hear from one another.*
From these verses, let us first select one that immediately fits into the context so far: “Since we have been a conversation…” We—human beings—are a conversation. Human Being is grounded in language; but first properly occurs in conversation. This, however, is just one way in which language takes place; language is only essential as conversation.
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Yet Hölderlin says: “Since we have been a conversation and can hear from one another.” Being able to hear is not merely a consequence of speaking with one another, but is instead the condition for this. Even being able to hear is itself in turn based upon the possibility of the word, and needs it. Being able to talk and being able to hear are equally originary. We are a conversation—and that means we are able to hear from one another. We are a conversation, and that also always means: We are one conversation.
—Martin Heidegger, “Hölderlin and the Essence of Poetry,” Heidegger Reader (Indiana University Press, 2009)
*lines from an unfinished poem by Hölderlin
Named many of the heavenly ones,
Since we have been a conversation
And can hear from one another.*
From these verses, let us first select one that immediately fits into the context so far: “Since we have been a conversation…” We—human beings—are a conversation. Human Being is grounded in language; but first properly occurs in conversation. This, however, is just one way in which language takes place; language is only essential as conversation.
[…]
Yet Hölderlin says: “Since we have been a conversation and can hear from one another.” Being able to hear is not merely a consequence of speaking with one another, but is instead the condition for this. Even being able to hear is itself in turn based upon the possibility of the word, and needs it. Being able to talk and being able to hear are equally originary. We are a conversation—and that means we are able to hear from one another. We are a conversation, and that also always means: We are one conversation.
—Martin Heidegger, “Hölderlin and the Essence of Poetry,” Heidegger Reader (Indiana University Press, 2009)
*lines from an unfinished poem by Hölderlin
10.10.2013
only the work
OF POETRY
there is only the work.
The work is what speaks
and what is spoken
and what attends to hear
what is spoken
—William Bronk, Death is the Place (North Point Press, 1989)
there is only the work.
The work is what speaks
and what is spoken
and what attends to hear
what is spoken
—William Bronk, Death is the Place (North Point Press, 1989)
2.11.2009
in the desert of theory
Listen hard enough and you can hear prophet poets chanting, singing, raving out in the desert of theory. Nothing out there was created to hear them.
2.26.2006
circus of words
The poem was a nice circus of words, but I couldn't smell the animals nor hear the groan and creak of the trapeze.
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