<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=581602" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Venerable Stones</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the great house of the master stones<br>are venerable, and those we cast are often<br>cast only in a brave attempt to soften<br>the blows cast on our house, our pride, a clone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The correspondences to all are clear<br>because our stones, just like our paradigms, <br>are copies of the master’s, as sincere, <br>but little more than prose we gild with rhymes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">David Orr reviews Helen Vendler’s “Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form” (“Vendler’s Yeats, ” NYT Book Review, May 11,2008) : <br>If “Our Secret Discipline” isn’t as strong as it could be, it’s because Vendler has thought deeply about Yeats’s use of form, but not about form apart from Yeats. And this isn’t surprising, really. Her great strength has always been her close reading of individual poets. If that causes her occasionally to find correspondences that don’t exist, well, what steward hasn’t wanted to find a world perfected in the venerable stones of the master’s great house? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>5/11/08</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gershon+Hepner">Gershon Hepner</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=581602" data-title="Venerable Stones de Gershon Hepner" data-description="In the great house of the master stones are venerable, and those we cast are often cast only in a brave attempt to soften the blows cast on our house, our pride, a clone. The correspondences to all are clear because our stones, just like our para..."></div> </div> </div>

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