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I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.
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I See The Poem Or The Novel

Michael Ondaatje
I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.
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When god gives you a door, if you want access, you go through that door. people didn't like jesus. oh, they had all kind of reasons to hate him but jesus said, "i am the door. any man who enters must come by me. if you don't come by me," he said, "you're a thief and a robber." well, if omarosa manigault is the door to donald trump, well i kind of like that door. that's a pretty door. that's an intelligent door. that's a spiritually rooted door.
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I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like that. the whole life of us writers, the whole product i guess i mean, is the one long poem - a community effort if you will. it's all the same poem. it doesn't belong to any one writer - it's god's poem perhaps. or god's people's poem.
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One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. there is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. the critics will never forgive you such. the great rudyard kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. i keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.
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A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. the remarks he makes about his poems are incidental when the poem is good, or embarrassing or absurd when it is bad and he is not permitted to say how the good poem is good, and may never know how the bad poem is bad. it is better to write about other people's poetry.
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The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. more profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of the poem, in terms of the music and images, so that the poem is alive throughout. another, more fundamental statement in poetry, is made through the images themselves those declarations, evocative, exact, and musical, which move through time and are the actions of a poem.
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