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IT GOES WITHOUT

8/8/2016

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If a tree falls in the forest
and there is no poet to notice it
is it still a poem?


I've never thought of poetry as something someone just makes up and writes down. No more than love is just an emotion. The reason we feel love is that we are made of it and surrounded by it. The reason we write poetry is that we are made of it and surrounded by it. The world itself is composed of poetry. We take note of it or not, write it down or not, but we don't invent it.

The joy of reading a great poem is in the recognition of our own world, isn't it?

Or so it seems to me.


IT GOES WITHOUT
 
It goes without saying,
there is poetry
everywhere you look.
 
But who, these days
will look?
It goes without saying.
 
 
 
Doug Westendorp
7/16
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    I am a poet and translator of ancient Chinese poetry. 

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