Showing posts with label poignance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poignance. Show all posts

Friday, November 6, 2009

willy-nilly

Profundity is one of those willy-nilly things. There's no use tending to it--that is unnatural. The way profundity works is it slips in among the mundanity of everyday existence. As i recall writing down some time ago in another notebook, poetry is practicality plus poignancy. In other words, it is a measured estimation of reality