ashbery-discovery

January 16, 2025

I am trying to discover things that I am not already conscious of. Rather than deal with experiences from my past which are already familiar to me, the excitement of writing poetry for me is to explore places that I have not already found. Heidegger says that to write a poem is to make a voyage of discovery. In the same way, I am always interested in my future poems rather than the ones which I’ve already written. The old ones really don’t do anything for me.

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“A novel gives each fragment of the self an entire life of its own; it’s easy to imagine lives that give scope to underserved fragments.“

Helen DeWitt

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