Sunday, November 07, 2021

Beers & Books CXLIX – Antonio Skármeta

Poetry belongs to those who use it,
not those who write it!

Antonio Skármeta * 7 November 1940

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  1. Someone (Rumi?) said that poetry is the language of the heart. Perhaps, but I am glad that my heart is (unlike myself) multi-lingual.

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    1. Those praising poetry as the language of the heart, would then call prosa heartless? May they find the fault.
      There is good and lousy poetry, good and lousy prosa. That's all.

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