Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009

29.11.2016 - St. J. Perse2 and Poetry etc...


dali48 and writing books and photographing a little lizard etc...
 

08.10.2009 - Interpretation of dali48      

But more than a mode of perception, poetry is above all a way of life, of integral life - The poet existed among the cave men, he will exist among men of atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man - Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need - and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint - When mythologies vanish, the divine finds refuge and perhaps even continuation in poetry...

Such by his total adherence to that which is, the poet maintains for us a relationship with the permanence and unity of Being - And his lesson is one of optimism - For him the entire world of things is governed by a single law of harmony... (St. J. Perse, Banquet Sp. 1960)


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29.11.2016 - St. J. Perse2 and Library of Congress etc...


dali48 and writing books and photographing in SHA etc...
 

08.10.2009 - Interpretation of dali48       

After the defeat of France in 1940 he was abruptly suspended and went into exile - was considered a dangerous adversary by the Vichy regime, and was deprived of his French citizenship - He found refuge in Washington, where he occupied a position as literary adviser to the Library of Congress...

This international versatility, the hallmark of the great traveller - constitutes moreover one of the themes often repeated in the poet's work...

Exil (Exile), 1942, and Vents (Winds), 1946, both written in America. They constitute an imposing statement of the uninterrupted cycle of degeneration and rejuvenation - while Amers (Seamarks), 1957, celebrates the sea - the eternal dispenser of power, the first cradle of civilizations...

In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all "poetic" - in the proper sense of the word...

The mystery is common to both - And the great adventure of the poetic mind is in no way secondary to the dramatic advances of modern science... (St. J. Perse, Pres. Sp. 1960)


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