The pre-verbal...

A poem can survive stylistic blemishes but it cannot survive a stillbirth. ---Seamus Heaney

[LTG]

允许有表达上的欠缺，不允许有凭空的做作...

right on!!!!!

"做作" is the worst enemy for poets....and it is the easiest to be sensed or detected ....

[地中海人鱼]

赞同！诗歌应该是鲜活的。

当诗人的感情诞生于笔端，其以诗歌的形式存在下来，无论到什么时候，仍旧能给人以“活”的感觉。--- 允许有表达上的欠缺，不允许有凭空的做作。

很多的诗歌，漂亮的词汇如繁花乱眼，一首诗里，重复的表达，重复的意象，重复的抒情，遮住了真实的面目。

life,life,life ... ...

[影云]

agree . . . with the "standard" . . . which sees through the "form" and into the "essence"

[LTG]

yeah, dead mind produces dead things....

Seamus's "standard" might be the ultimate rule for poetry, or any other art form....

[影云]

i guess, "stillbirth" also hints a dead mind . . .

[知凡]

"Blemishes" here means something like "shortcoming," or "not-quite-good," etc..
i think :)

[now i understand....thanks...]

because when a poem is made, a new life comes into being....that is why a "stillbirth" of a poem can only bring a "dead thing"....

life!

life!

life!

we need life!!!

there are already too many "dead things" in the air :))

[!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

[LTG]

"Blemishes" here means something like "shortcoming," or "not-quite-good," etc..
i think :)

because when a poem is made, a new life comes into being....that is why a "stillbirth" of a poem can only bring a "dead thing"....

life!

life!

life!

we need life!!!

there are already too many "dead things" in the air :))

[知凡]

"stylistic blemishes"... 我理解这句话，换一个说法，是不是一首诗就像一个人一样，要有"个性"(Individuality)...有些“blemishes”是一种味道。。。