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The Heresy of Paraphrase

Post by Marc Gilbert » Sat Jan 20, 2018 9:45 pm

"Poetry is not speech raised to the level of music, but music brought down to the level of speech." - Paul Valery

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Re: The Heresy of Paraphrase

Post by indar » Mon Jan 22, 2018 12:42 pm

Archibald MacLeish wrote a whole bunch of poems---I learned to love poetry because of a book of his collected poems that came into my possession. It makes me crazy that Ars Poetica is the poem that always gets included in the anthology---the poem that always gets mentioned when his name comes up. MacLeish disliked that poem--renounced the sentiments he expressed in it. Just had to say it. Otherwise interesting article.

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