Saturday, March 06, 2021

Poetry and life …

… Ordinary Time | The Russell Kirk Center. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

There’s an extraordinary bounty here but the underlying theme in this commentary, this commentary and summary, might be found in a quote from Wallace Stevens, his “Of Modern Poetry”: “The poem of the mind in the act of finding / What will suffice.” What can one find in a passing moment that will comfort and what will suffice, Mariani writes, has become the vocation of the Catholic poet today, the Christian writer.

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