<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397913" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Epistle to NP Van Wyk Louw</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see the wise old man<br>pacing his study<br>with a hot fire raging in the fireplace, <br>where manuscripts lie disorderly, <br>in an order that only makes sense to him, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">reading verses of other poets, <br>always searching for something <br>like a religious fanatic searches for truth, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">helping other poets, like the great mentor<br>(that he still is after his demise) <br>writing exceptionally great poems, <br>believing that a poet<br>is someone like a prophet, a kind of saint<br>who searches both for truth <br>and expresses the abyss, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">knowing that poetry is no struggle, <br>that the words, the structure to them<br>comes by itself as if given<br>like a communication <br>received from the gods</div><div style="margin:10px 0">with the evangelistic advise<br>to rather examine<br>from which spirit<br>the inspiration comes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[References: Epistle to Neruda by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Rondom eie werk (Around own work) by NP Van Wyk Louw. P84-85. Tafelberg Publishers: 1970.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397913" data-title="Epistle to NP Van Wyk Louw de Gert Strydom" data-description="I see the wise old man pacing his study with a hot fire raging in the fireplace, where manuscripts lie disorderly, in an order that only makes sense to him, reading verses of other poets, always searching for something like a religious fanat..."></div> </div> </div>

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