A Way With Words?
"We return here upon an ineluctable problem: that those for whom writing is like 'bearing a part in the conversation' must regard with incomprehension those for whom it is 'blindness' and 'perplexity' and that those for whom 'composition' is a struggle with dark and disputed matter will inevitably dismiss as mere worldliness the ability to push on pragmatically with the matter in hand."
Geoffrey Hill from 'Our Word is Our Bond'
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Oh dear. that's whipped down onto my psyche like a stinging rebuke!!
ReplyDeleteDoesn't he just have the ability to do that!
ReplyDeleteYes! My face when he said at that conference that he didn't consider himself a 'difficult' poet was a picture, i assure you...
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