AnimaMundi

Read It When You're Drunk

“I like reading poetry at night — a doctor I know claims that this is because ‘poetry is the only thing you can read when you’re drunk.’”
— John Lanchester

“We are all interested in our own poems, just as we are interested in the smell of our own armpits, because they are uniquely redolent of ourselves. We are not, for converse reasons, much interested, as a rule, in the slapdash maunderings of other people.”
— Editorial in The Spectator

“The poem that says ‘I love you’ is the little black cocktail dress, the classic thing that everyone would like to have written one of.”
— James Fenton

There is A Beautiful Place

I have to learn how to scan better. From Kenneth Patchen's "Hallelujah Anyway"

"Oh come now! There is a beautiful place! What do you think we're all looking out of"