“Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.”
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A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
