{"id":1522,"date":"2013-05-17T16:56:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T20:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2013-05-17T16:56:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T20:56:54","slug":"frank-stafford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=1522","title":{"rendered":"Frank Stafford"},"content":{"rendered":"
I don’t think it matters how a poet plants his garden; it is the quality of the yield which matters. Just like the stars, there are so many things to be said of poets and poems. I am not content in just suggesting things by the use of words, I want to show the origins, the metaphors of reality, the free movement of the spirit. Poetry is a body, all right, but in spirit it is the function which oftentimes creates the organ.<\/p>\n
Jean Cocteau said mystery exists only in precise things\u2014people in situations, situations in people. Because I believe the visionary life has nothing to do with a necessarily transcendent existence, I like most of the poems I read. I believe most poets know this is the world; and when you try to lead a special life or write a special poetry, you are dancing with an imaginary partner at a meaningless dance to which you have invited yourself and no one else.<\/h5>\n

\u2014 “With the Approach of the Oak the Axeman Quakes”
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