"If our auditory imaginations were sufficiently tuned to plumb and sound a vowel, to unite the most primitive and civilized associations, the word 'undine' would probably suffice as a poem in itself." Seamus Heaney
Friday, July 3, 2009
Quote: Osip Mandelstam
"The word is a bundle and meaning sticks out of it in various directions"
What a prickly thing a word is - it seems, Is it a cactus, a porcupine? or what? Oh, I am taking this too literally, am I or am I not? Please just forgive me but do not forgive my langauge. Anonymously yours, X.
What a prickly thing a word is - it seems,
ReplyDeleteIs it a cactus, a porcupine? or what?
Oh, I am taking this too literally, am I or am I not? Please just forgive me but do not forgive my langauge.
Anonymously yours,
X.