Poets

Edna St. Vincent Millay: “[I]f he prints and offers for sale poetry which he is quite content should be, after hours of sweating concentration, inexplicable from any point of view to a person as intelligent as myself, then he does so with a motive which is frivolous from the point of view of art, and should not be helped or encouraged by any serious person or group of persons … there is fine writing and powerful writing (as well as some of the most pompous nonsense I ever let slip to the floor with a wide yawn) … What I propose, then, is this: that you give Mr. Cummings enough rope. He may hang himself; or he may lasso a unicorn.”[51]

How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole; … and of the strange things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own Country.

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright. He is considered to be one of the 20th century’s greatest poets, as well as a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. His use of language, writing style, and verse structure reinvigorated English poetry. He is also noted for his critical essays, which often re-evaluated long-held cultural beliefs.

Intrigues me. Her images feel familiar to me, Excerpt from Renascence: ”…I saw and heard and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, And present, and forevermore.The Universe, cleft to the core,…”