Poetry – Page 2 – Christian Leithart

A Man Can Do Things Badly

Anything’s possible. Or if
Impossible, still possibly worth doing.
Sally Thomas, “New Year’s Day”

Banishment as a Way of Life for a Man

Television is a product, not a medium, and everything you see and hear is produced by people terrified that they might be banished from the castle tomorrow and lose their limos and expense-account lunches and become peasants again, so there is mighty little courage or playfulness, as there is in poetry, which is entirely created by peasants, every word. Banishment is a way of life for poets, so what’s to be afraid of?
Garrison Keillor

HT Daniel S.