Showing posts with label single line. Show all posts
Showing posts with label single line. Show all posts
4.25.2023
4.10.2018
standing alone
The poem was made of single line/sentence stanzas, each of which called too much attention to itself, standing self-importantly in open space.
2.04.2012
complex but easy to carry
The proof of poetry was, in [James Russell] Lowell's mind, that it reduced to the essence of a single line the vague philosophy that floated in all men's minds, so as to render it portable and useful, ready to the hand.
—Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club (Random House. 2003, p.34)
—Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club (Random House. 2003, p.34)
7.24.2011
balance of terror
A poem rests, barely, on a single line
a kind of balance of terror
humans must hold out their arms
and endure this balance—
a moment’s dizziness
will tilt your whole life
—Tamura Ryuichi, the opening stanza of “Perhaps a Great Poem,” Tamura Ryuichi: On the Life & Work of a 20th Century Master, edited by Takako Lento & Wayne Miller (Pleiades Press, 2011)
a kind of balance of terror
humans must hold out their arms
and endure this balance—
a moment’s dizziness
will tilt your whole life
—Tamura Ryuichi, the opening stanza of “Perhaps a Great Poem,” Tamura Ryuichi: On the Life & Work of a 20th Century Master, edited by Takako Lento & Wayne Miller (Pleiades Press, 2011)
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