“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen, Anthem
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“As a reader, I prefer a critic’s notebooks to his treatises.”
W H Auden, The Dyer’s Hand
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Some of us are more interested in how the thing is made.
Rather than standing back to enjoy the view.
We want to know the cement used to place the stones.
We want to see the architect’s notes.
The talk in the pub after a days work.
The obstacles and the solutions found.
I enjoy poetry.
I admire W H Auden.
But I find his essays and comments on the creation of a poem more compelling than the finished product.
The work is never done.
I’m always learning
There is advice in the cracks where every made thing is assembled.
I love to look.
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