tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641117771707843067.post2086979127882867088..comments2024-02-05T15:01:44.563-05:00Comments on Cleveland Poetics: a place for cleveland's writers and readers: A Little Poetic Inspirationmichael salingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14717310933948991992noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641117771707843067.post-36401761571161880652009-05-12T09:29:00.000-04:002009-05-12T09:29:00.000-04:00Great quotations - much food for thought! The one ...Great quotations - much food for thought! The one that feels truest for me is Charles Simic's. I've been revising some of my poems for 20 years. Even when I thought I finally had them as "perfect" as I thought they could be, there have been times when the very moment after I finally published them, put them on my blog, whatever, I decided there was yet another change I could make to give the poem more strength or truth. Some I let sit for ten years before feeling the need to tinker. Maybe this need to revise stems from the fact that we're all (hopefully) constantly evolving. A perfect poem to me in 1989 is different from a perfect poem for me in 1997. And the older I get, the more inclined I am to believe no poem is or can ever be perfect. Or it is only as perfect as we believe it to be - in which case, all poems have a pefection potential. Maybe the best we can hope for is a series of successively nearer and nearer approximations.... Paul Valéry said. "A poem is never finished, only abandoned." But my opinion, like everything else, seems to still be evolving.John B. Burroughshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11497208622485346132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641117771707843067.post-85834202560167663452009-05-11T22:51:00.000-04:002009-05-11T22:51:00.000-04:00i like what Sarton says=wholly agree.i like what Sarton says=wholly agree.Pressin Onhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02875715937095082907noreply@blogger.com