A word, now, as to Rimbaud's quitting poetry, and mine. In the poetic adventure, I had a structure of hope for shelter, whatever happened ; and my inspiration came from everywhere. He was inspired by desperation ; he flung it out, it narrowed fast back upon him, and would have destroyed him eventually had he not run away from it. For me, the essence of the adventure was in the words ; he used them as stuff from which to distil an elixir giving power to make happiness out of unhappiness.
Laura Riding, Selected Poems: In Five Sets
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Laura Riding, Selected Poems: In Five Sets
- frank 5-05-2003 5:54 pm