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Tag Archives: Rilke
On the Novel: The Continuing Adventures…
I have been meaning to write something on my progress here for a few months, but for some reason I’m having a difficult time formulating what it is exactly I want to say. Not that I usually know what I’m … Continue reading
Posted in On the Novel
Tagged Freud, Harold Bloom, Poems, Poetry, Rilke, Shakespeare, The Novel, the writing process, Wallace Stevens, Writing
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On Faith, Not-Faith, Poetry & Death*
A poet is constantly in a state of reassessment as long as he desires to be a vital presence, whether on the page or in the world. So I have continuously and obsessively turned the object, the diamond of poetry, … Continue reading
Posted in Starting from Poetry
Tagged death, Dickinson, divorce, Emerson, faith, grandparents, grief, Hamlet, hope, Li Po, life, literature, Pascal, philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Rilke, Schopenhauer, Shakespeare, Song of Myself, Tu Fu, Whitman, wisdom, Writing
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On Poetry and Childlessness
Rilke speaks in his letters about the loneliness of childhood, and I think this Romantic notion of that state is generally accepted by most artists. And there is something to be said about the long stretches of boredom–at least, it … Continue reading
Posted in Starting from Poetry
Tagged childhood, childlessness, imaginative literature, Poetry, Rilke, romantic notion, Wordsworth
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On Poetic Insight
I listened to a good friend and a fine poet lecture on teaching writing a few weeks ago. I was impressed especially by how she goes about teaching. Her pedagogy is very similar to mine, and I chalk that up … Continue reading
Posted in Starting from Poetry
Tagged Change, God, Insight, Poems, Poetry, reading, Rilke, the spirit, Uses of Poetry, Writing
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Revise, Revise
At the end of Rilke’s poem on the busted up bust of Apollo, he concludes: You must change your life. The idea is that, after looking at this vital work of art, one that retains all its power despite or even … Continue reading
