Friday, October 12, 2007
Great writing involves protecting one's intuitions, even one's ignorance. Knowing, as such, is not always an advantage to making significant art. Acknowledging one's ignorance, and learning to respect personal as well as human limitations, WHILE one works with the welter of fantasies that tumble between certainty and helplessness, is not learnable in school, and can probably best be dealt with in what I would call 'neutral solitude'... For a poet, ignorance is as deep a well as knowing...
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Clayton Eshleman, "Companion Spider"
This is in reference to your bullet-point summation of our phone conversation the other day.
Looking forward to March...
I love the comment about the "welter of fantasies" I'm learning too that anything that feels like planning or certainty is really just an illusion but how interesting to couch this in vaguely sexual terms (i.e., the condition of stability or equilibrium is somehow akin to a sexual fantasy) and not just interesting but it makes sense since the desire for perfect control relates to power which is not to say that organizing and planning and plotting do not have their place but they are just one other coping mechanism which means they can be tossed if one could learn that too much emphasis on balance can lead a leg to ultimately snap whereas a great celebration of imbalance might yield greater personal and familial satisfaction over the long haul I know you know this I just wish others did I think of Blake saying we have to wash off the "not human" that I fear society is increasingly committed to
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