6.20.2003

then of course there's the flip side, the problems for sense & sensibility & living created by T*H*O*U*G*H*T*S. . .

TS Eliot's turn of the screw (Metaphysical poetry exhibited fusion of thought & feeling, everything downhill from there).

Comes back to the fact that poetry is as Mandelstam put it

NIGHTINGALE FEVER

thought/feeling/action/word/deed - compacted into small feather-winged container

flying NOW

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