Comments on: On Poets and Speakers https://thethepoetry.com/2010/12/on-poets-and-speakers/ Where was it one first heard of the truth? Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ute Margaret Saine via Facebook https://thethepoetry.com/2010/12/on-poets-and-speakers/comment-page-1/#comment-1581 Ute Margaret Saine via Facebook Wed, 06 Jun 2012 22:18:33 +0000 https://thethepoetry.com/?p=3381#comment-1581 What you write is true, of course, but it’s not just a question of the poet’s ‘alternative identity’, but that writing the poem may have actually helped the poet to overcome the sad situation. Through the mirror of beauty in art and literature we can perceive without pain even death.

]]> By: Interesting post « elias siqueiros https://thethepoetry.com/2010/12/on-poets-and-speakers/comment-page-1/#comment-1574 Interesting post « elias siqueiros Sun, 03 Jun 2012 18:11:39 +0000 https://thethepoetry.com/?p=3381#comment-1574 [...] https://thethepoetry.com/2010/12/on-poets-and-speakers/ Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:LikeBe the first to like this post. Posted by eliassiqueiros Filed in Uncategorized Leave a Comment » [...]

]]> By: Joe Weil via Facebook https://thethepoetry.com/2010/12/on-poets-and-speakers/comment-page-1/#comment-887 Joe Weil via Facebook Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:06:54 +0000 https://thethepoetry.com/?p=3381#comment-887 I’m glad I turned the show over to you.You’re a fine writer, and it’s amazing to see what you come up with every day.Whenever I get sick of this literary world, and wish the hell I had never written a poem, you remind me what I love about poetry. Thanks, love.

]]> By: Greenhousecat7 https://thethepoetry.com/2010/12/on-poets-and-speakers/comment-page-1/#comment-885 Greenhousecat7 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:08:00 +0000 https://thethepoetry.com/?p=3381#comment-885 Wow. This has always been a big part of my hesitation to share my work. Thank you. :) Truly.

]]> By: Greenhousecat7 https://thethepoetry.com/2010/12/on-poets-and-speakers/comment-page-1/#comment-886 Greenhousecat7 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:08:00 +0000 https://thethepoetry.com/?p=3381#comment-886 Wow. This has always been a big part of my hesitation to share my work. Thank you. :) Truly.

]]> By: Adamjfitz https://thethepoetry.com/2010/12/on-poets-and-speakers/comment-page-1/#comment-884 Adamjfitz Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:12:00 +0000 https://thethepoetry.com/?p=3381#comment-884 So help me here, Em, you assume poets and speakers are the same or different? You want them to be the same or different?

Here’s my criticism: we have to fend as hard as we can against the sentimentality of the mad artist—because it misleads wanna-be artists, it trivializes art (sane or insane membranes alike). The clinical status of a Van Gogh is not without human interest—but chaos never produced art. That’s only the beautiful lie of art. Ditto for madness. Ditto for sanity. Ditto for biography. Ditto for “impersonality.” That’s all just the smoke and folderol we’ve arranged to side-step and make our inarticulateness dreamy.

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