From the walls of Open Books: A Poem Emporium, Seattle; one of only two poetry-only book stores in the country, now celebrating their Tenth Anniversary (Yay John & Christine!):
For me, everything in poetry should be out of place. Anna Akhmatova
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson
One reads poetry with one's nerves. Wallace Stevens
A poem is untoward. Heather McHugh
Successions of words are so agreeable. Gertrude Stein
Art is about experience (in the same sense that a cat indoors is "about" the house). Allen Grossman
The HEAD, by way of the EAR, to the SYLLABLE / The HEART, by way of the BREATH, to the LINE. Charles Olson
Unscrew the locks from the doors / Unscrew the doors themselves from their jams! Walt Whitman
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A poetry-only bookstore??? Wow. That's pretty awesome. I hadn't read some of those quotes--the Grossman or McHugh. Thanx for them. I love poetic aphorisms. Hope your day is joyful.
Woody: let me know what you find out. If it's mis-attributed especially . . . and I'll pass it on to John & Christine, as these lines are stencilled on the walls of the bookstore, in the area where the poetry readings happen.
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