Red Rot

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Matthew Zapruder on reading poetry

[No one] asks mathematicians or physicists to make very complex equations or theories simple and clear, if to do so would compromise their task of communicating the truth. So why should we expect always immediately to understand, and consider lack of understanding a failure on our part or on the part of a poem? Especially if we are reading a poem full of the complexities and contradictions of human life and feeling.

from Don't Paraphrase

4:58 p.m. - 2012-06-08

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