Poets forge vocabularies. Their choice of words is often voluntarily lackluster. And the most commonly employed word, the most worn, when used in the right place, will suddenly take on an extraordinary brilliance.
Poets forge vocabularies. Their choice of words is often voluntarily lackluster. And the most commonly employed word, the most worn, when used in the right place, will suddenly take on an extraordinary brilliance.
“Every artist worth her salt knows what I mean — either one chooses the well trodden path, platitude, sentimentality, the current orthodoxy, whatever, or one blazes a trail which is, no matter the nature of the work, part of the process of becoming.”
Rikki Ducornet