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Danh ngôn của W. S. Merwin (Sứ mệnh: 7)

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
The past is always - one moment it's what happened three minutes ago, and one minute it's what happened 30 years ago. And they flow into each other in ways that we can't predict and that we keep discovering in dreams, which keep bringing up feelings and moments, some of which we never actually saw.
What turned me into an environmentalist, on my eleventh birthday, was seeing the first strip mine.
What a great poem teaches you - and it's not intellectual at all - is the resonance in the language that's heard there. This goes back to the very origins of poetry and to the very origins of language.