Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Poetic thought for the day

I ran across this excerpt during my train ride to work this morning:

"In this way diametrically opposed but equally extreme psychic states such as pain and ecstacy, despair and bliss, are comparable experiences because they both usurp and annihilate time. They create their own sense of eternity."

On page 231 in "How to Read a Poem" by Edward Hirsch.

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