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Above Roy R. Behrens, Paul's New Acquisition (© 2021). Digital montage.
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Joseph Langland (Poetry! What in the World are You Saying?)—
I wanted to sing to you to say, not to be forgotten, that poetry is among other things, song, varied carols, hymns, chants, or even a drone. But it is verbal music; the word is its god, and the poet its worshipper. I never was much interested in helping anyone into poetry because he had exciting ideas, but the moment I find someone who is enchanted by a phrase I think that he might be trained to lift whatever he thinks into a whole holy city of the imagination.
