Bianca Stone
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Poetry; philosophy, psychoanalysis. Poet laureate of VT. Author w @Tin_House Founder of @RuthStoneHouse Host of @OdeAndPsyche
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I have a new poem in The New Yorker--
I'm thinking how Derrida said that to say what poetry "is" would be to renounce knowledge. The beautiful thing about poetry is its event of knowledge, never settling, always unfolding, IN the poem, between people:
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"I don't want to die. I want to be alive...
The eating! The music! The touching things!"
--my 6yo last night going to bed 😭
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Poetry is a conversation with the situation of existence.
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Every March I have to slow-clap for my grandma's move to open a book with this poem.
#RuthStone
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There is nothing better than writing poems in the morning when it's raining and you have the house to yourself and it is fall.
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"The Greek myth says: one cannot create a work unless the enormous experience of depths- and experience which the Greeks recognize as necessary to the work, and experience in which the work is put to the test by that enormousness-- is not pursued for its own sake....
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“It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.”
― Robert Hass
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My daughter, Odette, dictated a little poem to me and it perfect.
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Louise Gluck is one of the masters of negative capability.
That last line-- 💥❔👌
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We confuse being confusing with being poetic. This is a fatal mistake. Honor strangeness in the lyrical, and reject the sanctioned rules of prose--but do not think poetry is not about precision. It is precision itself.
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yeah poetry taught me something it taught me difference between vertical / horizontal bc still to this day I have to think of the Plath poem "I Am Vertical" & the opening line "but I would rather be horizontal" & think, "yes she wants to lie down & die, so that's flat"
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"I felt like a storm. And then I felt like a flower."
--My 6yo daughter after throwing up pizza all over my bedroom floor
🙌 🌷
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
Simone Weil
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Writing poetry never is "just" about writing actual poems. But creating a space for yourself, and others, to exist in a poetic condition. It's not only reading and writing, but changing the way we think. To learn to listen to the constant lyrical aspects of human consciousness.
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I am tired of the laundry, I want to be great.
Sharon Olds
from Satan Says
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😭 They made me the poet laureate of Vermont. I just love this state so much.
Thank you everyone for the messages I just happen to literally be teaching poetry in the woods today. Thank you
@VTArtsCouncil
❤️❤️❤️
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Aren't lovers
always arriving at each other's boundaries?--
although they promised vastness, hunting, home.
Rilke
(Mitchell trs)
Still on that 4th 💥
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I find that my poems know far more than I do, and I prefer it that way.
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One can forget a poem is not 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 an event, but 𝘪𝘴 an event.
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This man has never read my poetry. But he thinks I'm too intellectual for "the people." In fact, he quotes, the reason poetry is only read by 12% of Americans, is because of its "high falutin" ways. The demand for mediocrity & capitalism's idea of poetry's worth is depressing.
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The wound hurts as it hurts
And not in function of the cause that produced it.
Yes, I am tired.
And ever so slightly smiling
Fernando Pessoa 🔥
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Glück's openings are KNIVES every time.
Her anger love is so familiar to me....
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Besides the obvious MADNESS (not in a good way) of this, I've found ppl who polarize w "this is not poetry" so telling. Poetry is built upon nuance! shades of understanding between differences! In its shocking pettiness, the statement highlights the genius poetry it cannot see.
Yes, I know that Diane Seuss won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, but this is not only NOT a sonnet, it is not any kind of poetry at all. It is prose.
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--Nothing happens? Or has everything happened
Juan Ramón Jiménez
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I'm thinking: it can take months for the thought of a poem to articulate itself. It comes first as languageless texture in the mind; a knowing of something forming. But this gestation is from a built, cultivated room in the psyche: full of frustrated thought, research, repose...
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She'll be ridin' in on a demon skull pulled by two chickens holding some pie when she comes 🎶
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1. The underlying message here is that poetry isn't relevant unless it makes money. Poetry has always resisted mass society, capitalism, groupthink. It has always been indicative of a healthy introspective society that works out the most troubling & wondrous RELEVANT issues.
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This Stanley Kunitz poem never fails to get me; its subtle dark humor and devastating implications; that most difficult tool of being plainspoken wielded perfectly; to show the intergenerational effects of suicide--I know firsthand--that do indeed, still burn.
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Poetry can only save my life if I am taking care of myself enough to read and write it.
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I'm so excited to announce a new era of the podcast! What was already occurring I've made official: welcome Ode & Psyche Podcast, devoted to starting conversations around how poetry illuminates the mechanisms of human consciousness. I'll be focusing in on elements of...
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literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.
Franz Wright
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I wonder if people fear poetry out of a fear of their own desires; and a great fear of finding themselves within a place demanding they dream while awake.
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What I hate most about depression is how it robs you of experience. That it's layered with guilt, of "time" wasted, poems not written, collaboration not instigated. That it's like indolence. & is boring. Like a terrible, deadly, seductive repose...undead, not even
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1/ For me the greater education of poetry isn't about "bringing poetry to a wider audience" (mass society think) nor making more people write poetry. It's about showing people that poetry is ALREADY in their lives; innate in the human consciousness. Mythopoetics at play...
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I need some recommendations for really incredible films. What poetic masterpieces in the art of script writing / cinematography are there?
I loved "I'm Thinking of Ending Things"
A psychological angle is a bonus.
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I've never had my feelings about therapy AND poetry articulated so goddamn perfectly via GIORGIO AGAMBEN
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there is nothing more devastating than being told by a parent that your memory, your experience is not real -- so that it may comfort their version of things -- may I die a thousand deaths if I do this to my daughter -- And may I find compassion in remembering why ppl do this
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We begin in admiration and we end by organizing our disappointment.
Mary Ruefle, quoting Bachelard
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Winter is by far the oldest of the seasons. Not only does it confer age upon our memories, taking us back to a remote past, but, on snowy days, the house too is old. It is as though it were living in the past of centuries gone by.
Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
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Poetry is the most inclusive form of thought we have yet devised, a conscious call upon those resources of myth which underlie all language and all thinking.
Elizabeth Sewell, The Orphic Voice: Poetry & Natural History
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But today I want Rilke to speak--through me.
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To translate not just into (i.e., into the Russian language), but across (a river).
Marina Tsvetaeva
(Translation by Ilya Kaminsky & Jean Valentine)
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