Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.53.0303252025320.15343@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: Two Good Quotes
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:25:43 -0500 (EST)
Two Good Quotes 1942 April 5: To write poetry now, even on current events, Brecht feels, means to withdraw into the ivory tower: 'It's as though one were practic- ing the art of filigree. There is something eccentric, cranky, obtuse about it. Such poetry is like the castaway's note in the bottle. The battle of Smolensk, too, is fought for poetry.' (Klaus Volker, Brecht Chronicle.) 2003 March 25: To write poetry now, even on current events, Sondheim feels, means to withdarw into the ivory tower: 'It's as though one were practicing the art of filigree. There is something eccentric, cranky, obtuse about it. Such poetry is like the castaway's note in the bottle. The battle against Bush, too, is fought for poetry.' (Alan Sondheim, IT Chronicle.)