Verse Theory
From the New York Review, Sept 29, 2011, "Angry Genius ...", page 66: [blogger does not allow for proper formatting of a quotation]
We should not be dismayed, suggests Murray, by the elusive, flickering, on-off character of our contact with the numinous. Rather, we should learn to wait with equanimity - as poet or as believer - for the next flash of grace. Poetic insight and revelation are both, by their nature:
intermittent,
as the action of those birds - crested pigeon, rosella parrot -
who fly with wings shut, then beating, and again shut.
We should not be dismayed, suggests Murray, by the elusive, flickering, on-off character of our contact with the numinous. Rather, we should learn to wait with equanimity - as poet or as believer - for the next flash of grace. Poetic insight and revelation are both, by their nature:
intermittent,
as the action of those birds - crested pigeon, rosella parrot -
who fly with wings shut, then beating, and again shut.
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