Spiritual Journal, 10/10/01
Oct. 11th, 2001 06:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsyche10:35 p.m.
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality."
--T.S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent," 1919.
palimpsest--a parchment or tablet that has been written on more than once, with the underlying texts only partly erased and hence still visible. H.D.'s symbol for human history.
These are the things I learn perusing my old Norton Anthology....
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality."
--T.S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent," 1919.
palimpsest--a parchment or tablet that has been written on more than once, with the underlying texts only partly erased and hence still visible. H.D.'s symbol for human history.
These are the things I learn perusing my old Norton Anthology....