[New-Poetry] Aram Saroyan

[Joseph Duemer]

I think I must have first come to understand this from reading Williams'
entry in Keywords years ago. It remains a very useful little book that I
keep near at hand.

jd

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Robin Hamilton <
robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com> wrote:

> From: "Skip Fox" <skip at louisiana.edu>
>
>  Organic in whole and parts. Lovely. A lively site for thought (esp.
>> compared
>> to disputes between poets).
>>
>
> The quotation would seem to be from Coleridge's _Table-Talk_:
>
> http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/7tabc10.txt
>
> *****
>
> _December_ 18. 1831.
>
> A STATE.--PERSONS AND THINGS.--HISTORY.
>
> The difference between an inorganic and an organic body lies in this:--In
> the first--a sheaf of corn--the whole is nothing more than a collection of
> the individual parts or phenomena. In the second--a man--the whole is the
> effect of, or results from, the parts; it--the whole--is every thing, and
> the parts are nothing.
>
> *****
>
>
> Robin
>
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Joseph Duemer
Professor of Humanities
Clarkson University
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