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In the moment of creating I am aware neither of myself nor of others.

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Lyric poetry is a kind of poetry that's literally musical.

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In my poetry, I am just as influenced by muscians or composers..as I am by people who create with words.

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When I write I am attempting to do justice to something I have glimpsed about the world.

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Most poetry involves rhythmically structured or patterned language, avoiding what might be called 'a singing line'.

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A poem might begin for me from a rhythmical phrase without words but with an an emotional / tonal pitch or colour which will announce itself.Other times I' ll just become obsessed by something..hoping that eventually it will speak to me in English.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Jan Zwicky

Jan Zwicky

Born: May 10, 1955 (age 69)
Bio: Jan Zwicky is a Canadian philosopher, poet, essayist, and musician.
Known for:
  1. Lyric philosophy (1992)
  2. Songs for Relinquishing the Earth (1998)
  3. Wisdom & metaphor (2003)
  4. Wittgenstein elegies (1986)
  5. The Book of Frog (2012)

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