The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than … - Jane Hirshfield

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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

Jane Hirshfield

The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.

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