Christian Wiman - Ambition and survival (2004)

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At some point you have to believe that the inadequacies of the words you use will be transcended by the faith with which you use them. You have to believe that poetry has some reach into reality itself, or you have to go silent.

Christian Wiman

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

Christian Wiman

I don't believe in laying to rest the past. There are wounds we won't get over. There are things that happen to us that, no matter how hard we try to forget, no matter with what fortitude we face them, what mix of religion and therapy we swallow, what finished and durable forms of art we turn them into, are going to go on happening inside of us for as long as our brains are alive.

Christian Wiman