…the greatest poetry, like the greatest prose, has a doubleness; the poet is talking to you on two planes at once.
…the greatest poetry, like the greatest prose, has a doubleness; the poet is talking to you on two planes at once.
“Then you realize: night gives the world back its natural, original appearance, without sugar-coating it; day is a flight of fancy, light a slight exception, an oversight, a disruption of the order. The world in fact is dark, almost black. Motionless and cold.”
Olga Tokarczuk | Flights