Tuesday, April 21, 2009

"It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there." - William Carlos Williams

In poetry, we know that the author is trying to show us something. However, we cannot find what that "something" is directly. We must search for what there is to find and in some cases one man can get different "news" than the other. 
Some people try so hard to find what is in poetry that they sometimes lose sight of the simple message. The harder they look into things, the less and less the message means. When searching,  a lesson can mean less and less but when man happens to come across it, it holds a whole new significance. It is like having an epiphany; one cannot search for it, but must let it come to him. 

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