In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.
J. M. CoetzeeIf there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
J. M. CoetzeeHis mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he does not care to do so, or does not care enough"(72).
J. M. Coetzee