Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Vassar Miller on Poetry (Quote for the Day Book)

"Poetry, like all art, has a trinitarian function: creative, redemptive, and sanctifying. It is creative because it takes the raw materials of fact and feeling and makes them into that which is neither fact nor feeling. Redemptive because it transforms pain, ugliness of life into joy, beauty. Sanctifying because it gives the transitory a relative form of meaning."

Hat tip and thank you to Brain Pickings for quoting this today, and for reminding me of Vassar Miller's poetry. 

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