may be one of its chief delights.
To create something that has immediate and practical application is to be a cog in the utilitarian machine. But to make something that has neither definable quality nor discernible purpose is to experience first hand the joy of original creation.
Adam gave names to all the animals. We give the animal back to the names.
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As you may have already figured out, it's been a particularly rewarding weekend, poetry reading wise - D.A. Powell's Cocktails, Rachel Zucker's Bad Wife Handbook and Armantrout's Up to Speed, with Geoffrey Hill's Selected Poems to follow. Happiness.
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2 comments:
A thought also postulated in Oscar Wilde's introduction to 'A Picture of Dorian Gray'- "We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely."
Hey,
I'm a student at the University of Mumbai doing an M.A. in Lit. My classmates and I are planning to come up with a literary/art journal called 'Nether'.
I'd like you to visit our blog :
http://netherprint.wordpress.com/
I've been reading your blog for sometime now and would love it if you send us some of your works as submissions! We're accepting poems, short stories, flash-fiction, comic strips, sketches, etc. The guidelines are here :
http://netherprint.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/nether-poster.jpg
Any support would be helpful. So even if you pass on the link to our blog to others, it would be of great help :)
email me if you have any questions or anything : poetess.in.denial@gmail.com
- Ishita :)
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