More Very Useful Wise Advice from Boruch
In a foreign language, if you can say anything, you are happy.
If it is too willfull, too conscious, not sideways enough, it’s not interesting.
Poetry is far weirder than prose.
I don’t like to break the page barrier.
You don’t want to have a big plan. (For dating, for revision. Blogger’s addition.)
You have to take yourself out of the world to get to it.
Unnerving is the quality you want.
Resist finishing! Resist order and resist finishing.
Mythic elements create lyric space.
You need the tensions of lyric and narrative. Some things in the poem move, some don’t. That’s perfect. Like in paintings. You have some elements that are static and some that are moving.
Read against your grain to get over your own biases, the ones you can’t see.
Danger: saying I wanted I intended. Danger in saying thinking feeling.
Strange is good. “The sense of mystery lives in another life.”
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