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Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.
-Charles Simic
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Poems Are Other People's Snapshots In Which

Charles Simic
Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.
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I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.
Dream Wisdom Morning
There are definitely connections between poems, but i wanted each to stand on its own. i guess it goes back to the idea of trying to zoom in and out, and to modulate, so there are different ways of looking at any experience for the reader. even having short poems and long poems - there has to be some kind of variation in the experience of reading as a whole.
Reading Long Trying
But carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) babies are illogical. 2) nobody is despised who can manage a crocodile. 3) illogical persons are despised. therefore, babies cannot manage crocodiles. and: 1) no interesting poems are unpopular among people of real taste. 2) no modern poetry is free from affectation. 3) all of your poems are on the subject of soap bubbles. 4) no affected poetry is popular among people of taste. 5) only a modern poem would be on the subject of soap bubbles. therefore, all your poems are uninteresting.
Baby Real People
Poems don't have to rhyme... poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.
Feelings Emotion Rhyme
If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. i've always thought of my poems as meant to be overheard, as i think all of these poems are. it seems to me if you get experience right, even your most painful or humiliating experiences - if you get those experiences right for yourself and make discoveries as you go along and find for them some formal glue - they will be poems for others.
Dirty Writing Exercise
When emily dickinson's poems were published in the 1890s, they were a best-seller; the first book of her poems went through eleven editions of a print run of about 400. so the first print run out of boston for a first book of poems was 400 for a country that had fifty million people in it. now a first print run for a first book is maybe 2,000? so that's a five-time increase in the expectation of readership. probably the audience is almost exactly the same size as it was in 1900, if you just took that one example.
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