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Passing Through: The Later Poems (1995)
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Art is that chalice into which we pour the wine of transcendence.
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The poem comes in the form of a blessing — "like rapture breaking on the mind" — as I tried to phrase it in my youth. Through the years I have found this gift of poetry to be life-sustaining, life-enhancing, and absolutely unpredictable. Does one live, therefore, for the sake of poetry? No, the reverse is true: poetry is for the sake of the life.
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Poetry, I have insisted, is ultimately mythology, the telling of the stories of the soul.
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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Born:
July 29, 1905
Died:
May 14, 2006
(aged 100)
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