<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=573387" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sound As A Bench</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poetry should be mysterious as silence<br>and as sound as a bench<br>and as hard as a floor</div><div style="margin:10px 0">so I read in poems<br>by Denise Levertov</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poets are like worms <br>building from their innards<br>castles of metaphor</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She advises poets to relearn<br>the alphabet<br>from anguish and ardor<br>through somnolent grotto<br>to the flank of Pegasus<br>and home to the present</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I learn more from one line <br>about the twelfth letter<br>of the alphabet<br>according to Levertov<br>than most of the stuff<br>other people have drilled<br>into me since puberty!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Pruchnicki">Michael Pruchnicki</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=573387" data-title="Sound As A Bench de Michael Pruchnicki" data-description="Poetry should be mysterious as silence and as sound as a bench and as hard as a floor so I read in poems by Denise Levertov Poets are like worms building from their innards castles of metaphor She advises poets to relearn the alphabet from ang..."></div> </div> </div>

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