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The ear writes my poems, not the mind.
-Stanley Kunitz
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The Ear Writes My Poems, Not The

Stanley Kunitz
The ear writes my poems, not the mind.
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One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. one writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in order to retrieve them. one writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. like prayer--you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'.
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The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. the eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape: the ear hears words that talk about all this. when hearing takes place, character areas change; but when you see, inner areas change. if all you know about fire is what you have heard see if the fire will agree to cook you! certain energies come only when you burn. if you long for belief, sit down in the fire! when the ear receives subtly; it turns into an eye. but if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens.
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I’m trying to embroider.” hyacinth held up her handiwork as proof. “you’re trying to avoid—” her mother stopped, blinking. “i say, why does that flower have an ear?” “it’s not an ear.” hyacinth looked down. “and it’s not a flower.” “wasn’t it a flower yesterday?” “i have a very creative mind,” hyacinth ground out, giving the blasted flower another ear. “that,” violet said, “has never been in any doubt.” hyacinth looked down at the mess on the fabric. “it’s a tabby cat,” she announced. “i just need to give it a tail.
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Robert frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only attic but laconic, boeotian even - "at least not systematic"; but how systematically frostian the worst of his later poems are! his good poems are the best refutation of, the most damning comment on, his bad: his complete poems have the air of being able to educate any faithful reader into tearing out a third of the pages, reading a third, and practically wearing out the rest.
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[raymond roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and that everyone in the street would be able to see that he had written a book. this is the obscure desire harboured by everyone who writes. it is true that the first text one writes is neither written for others, nor because one is what one is: one writes to become other than what one is. one tries to modify one's way of being through the act of writing.
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