[New-Poetry] Hill quote corrected

[Anny Ballardini]

this is quite interesting:

The poem was like a cathedral covered by scaffolding. There was beauty and wonder underneath but it could not be seen for all the critical attention.

quoting our James on ursprache.
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  Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 3:09 PM
  Subject: [New-Poetry] Hill quote corrected


  My blog proofreader must have been on vacation this week and noticed that the quote I directed people to had a stray comma, a missing comma and a missing hypen. Here it is corrected...

   

   

  At one point in The Orchards of Syon (XXIII) I say ‘I write / to astonish myself’. This self-astonishment is achieved when, by some process I can’t fathom, common words are moved, or move themselves, into clusters of meaning so intense that they seem to stand up from the page, three-dimensional almost.



  --Geoffrey Hill

  quoted in Don’t Ask Me What I Mean, Poets In Their Own Words

  Edited by Clare Brown and Don Paterson

  Picador 2003






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