March 15, 2006
from Carl Sandburg, "Tentative (First Model) Defitinitions of Poetry" in Good Morning America (Harcourt Brace, 1928).
4. Poetry is the tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.
6. Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.
19. Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.
21. Poetry is a sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.
27. Poetry is a statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the change of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.
30. Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.
4. Poetry is the tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.
6. Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.
19. Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.
21. Poetry is a sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.
27. Poetry is a statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the change of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.
30. Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.
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