[New-Poetry] a well-furnished poem, ready to move in

[jforjames at aol.com]

I posted this quote?recently on another list, and now it again seems apropos to thoughts of toasters,?ATMs and toads in poems...

Thirteen years ago, I had the slightly terrifying honor of talking with the venerated and mellifluous Rabindranath Tagore. We were speaking of the poetry of Baudelaire. Someone recited "La Mort des amants," that sonnet so appointed with beds, couches, flowers, chimneys, mantelpieces, mirrors, and angels. Tagore listened intently, but at the end he exclaimed, "I don't like your furniture poet!" 


- Borges from a review of Tagore's Collected Poems and Plays



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