"The Romantic
view of composition, which derives from the English and the German Romantics,
means that the poet asks the unconscious, or the hidden man, or the
hidden woman, or the latent intelligence, to enter the poem and contribute
a few images that we may not fully understand"
“When
an artist is at work on a painting, images he or she had never thought
of arrive instead of the images the artist had planned through pictures
that appear in their mind’s eye, arriving particularly if they
do not strive to know. Yeats said:
“It’s
certain there are trout somewhere
and maybe I shall take a trout
if but I do not seem to care.”
“If human
being takes an action, the soul takes an actions”
“ If,
as human beings, we have any doubts about the existence of the interior
soul, we give up those doubts instantly. When we look in the mirror,
someone looks back questioning, serious, the eyes looking at us than
we ordinarily sense in our own eyes as looking at us?
Poem of Antonio
Machado - Last Night as I was Sleeping
-Antonio Machado said
“Look for your other half who walks always next to you and tends
to be who you aren’t."
Translated by R.B.
Call
and Answer
Tell me why it is we don’t lift our voices these days And cry over
what is happening. Have you noticed The plans are made for Iraq and
the ice cap is melting?
I say to myself: “Go on, cry. What’s the sense
Of being an adult and having no voice? Cry out! See who will answer!
This is Call and Answer!”
We will have to call especially loud to reach Our angels,
who are hard of hearing; they are hiding In the jugs of silence filled
during our wars.
Have we agreed to so many wars that we can’t Escape
from silence? If we don’t lift our voices, we allow Others (who
are ourselves) to rob the house.
How come we’ve listened to the great criers—Neruda,
Akhmatova, Thoreau, Frederick Douglass—and now We’re silent
as sparrows in the little bushes?
Some masters say our life lasts only seven days. Where
are we in the week? Is it Thursday yet? Hurry, cry now! Soon Sunday
night will come.
