R.M. ENGELHARDT
Poet Writer Author Albany NY
Category: On Writing
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“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.” ~ W.B. Yeats
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Why Is Contemporary American Poetry So Good? By Seth Abramson {NB: Below is my response, as a poet, to an article published earlier today in the Washington Post entitled “Why Is Modern Poetry So Bad?”, which itself was a response to an article published online last week, in the July 2013 issue of Harper’s, entitled…
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“see, heroes never die. John Wayne isn’t dead, Elvis isn’t dead. Otherwise you don’t have a hero. You can’t kill a hero. That’s why I never let him get older.” ~ Mickey Spillane
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“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” ~ Huxley
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Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably…
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Books measure time in both moments and years. We all grow old but the stories never will. ~ R.M. Engelhardt
