tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post7468850239761946242..comments2023-11-05T04:02:39.418-05:00Comments on Michelle's Spell: It's Not Enough That I SucceedMichelle's Spellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15769666862403600253noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-42950699081149917942010-04-07T21:27:35.983-04:002010-04-07T21:27:35.983-04:00Hi Honey, I love the poem. As a direct, frank pers...Hi Honey, I love the poem. As a direct, frank person, poetry comes hard for me. But I am learning.. xojodihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01798858210138821711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-76971226192967154842010-04-07T08:06:32.619-04:002010-04-07T08:06:32.619-04:00Jenny, Jenny, who can I turn to...I got your numbe...Jenny, Jenny, who can I turn to...I got your number on the wall...867-5309!--EverclearAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-61880753362035721152010-04-07T06:26:40.543-04:002010-04-07T06:26:40.543-04:00I am convinced my poetry is better than some of th...I am convinced my poetry is better than some of the guys who write on bathroom walls. Not all of them, mind you, but some of them.the walking manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10058913927297370740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-73754268624919079712010-04-07T06:04:58.872-04:002010-04-07T06:04:58.872-04:00It is enough that you succeed, Michelle. Just not ...It is enough that you succeed, Michelle. Just not for me.--Pink is the New BlogAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-3666040298971435562010-04-06T21:26:00.722-04:002010-04-06T21:26:00.722-04:00Call off the evil monkies!!!!--MBCall off the evil monkies!!!!--MBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-4003060786423970472010-04-06T21:25:15.351-04:002010-04-06T21:25:15.351-04:00I'm a monkey!--M.J.I'm a monkey!--M.J.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-72858453228361719172010-04-06T21:24:17.691-04:002010-04-06T21:24:17.691-04:00Anything worth doing is worth overdoing!--Mick Jag...Anything worth doing is worth overdoing!--Mick JaggerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-55584291438080381752010-04-06T21:20:10.920-04:002010-04-06T21:20:10.920-04:00She will have to sleep with grandma when she comes...She will have to sleep with grandma when she comes! She will have to sleep with grandma when she comes!--TraditionalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-16534304927833879372010-04-06T21:14:26.298-04:002010-04-06T21:14:26.298-04:00I've never been to a poetry reading. My life i...I've never been to a poetry reading. My life is incomplete.-- M.Y.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-77236014496298874662010-04-06T21:11:07.264-04:002010-04-06T21:11:07.264-04:00She was whipped and chained to a poetry reading! T...She was whipped and chained to a poetry reading! This is an outrage!--Anna AhkmatovahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-76845234833275425142010-04-06T21:08:00.128-04:002010-04-06T21:08:00.128-04:00It's not enough that she sucks seed. You have ...It's not enough that she sucks seed. You have to massage her poetic ego at all times, and that's how you win friends and influence people!--Dale CarnegieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-24353369242113561802010-04-06T20:57:25.709-04:002010-04-06T20:57:25.709-04:00After reading the above comments from her therapis...After reading the above comments from her therapist and biographer, it appears that the words "When they turn the sun /on again" have to do with depression. The joyful images of singing, playing and smiling seem to get the speaker of the poem out from under depression, but are themselves undercut by the haunting question of Sexton's last line. This is a superb poem that probably stems from Sexton's mental illness, a life experience she brilliantly translated into art.--Herman Northrop FryeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-31993734020900850982010-04-06T20:25:41.665-04:002010-04-06T20:25:41.665-04:00I came to see her[Sexton's] eighteen-year care...I came to see her[Sexton's] eighteen-year career as a successful response to a set of conditions that she could not change very much except by writing about them. Her maladies did not wholly succumb to insight: although psychotherapy helped her dramatically, she stayed sick. Yet her poems invented a self that others valued, and this endowed her real life with opportunities.-- Diane Wood MiddlebrookAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-65479860180886980552010-04-06T20:14:20.288-04:002010-04-06T20:14:20.288-04:00Anne and I had a relationship.--Martin Orne, M.D.Anne and I had a relationship.--Martin Orne, M.D.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-1130271848523599832010-04-06T19:32:13.205-04:002010-04-06T19:32:13.205-04:00It almost always comes over bad when a writer does...It almost always comes over bad when a writer does that kind of criticism in a personal situation like that. Not the way to win friends and influence folks.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-90930527910802394242010-04-06T13:40:00.180-04:002010-04-06T13:40:00.180-04:00Great poem. Amusing that the piece itself is unsur...Great poem. Amusing that the piece itself is unsure, when Sexton's critic was so positive of their own conclusion. Anyway, the former is far more endearing.Raymond Valentinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08020908835883009857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-3958203708937187782010-04-06T12:30:00.801-04:002010-04-06T12:30:00.801-04:00In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty,...In your light I learn how to love.<br />In your beauty, how to make poems.<br />You dance inside my chest,<br />where no one sees you,<br />but sometimes I do,<br />and that sight becomes this art.--RumiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-85258447161834652902010-04-06T12:26:49.947-04:002010-04-06T12:26:49.947-04:00The aim of art is to represent not the outward app...The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.--AristotleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-58909142500098872192010-04-06T12:24:33.282-04:002010-04-06T12:24:33.282-04:00If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay ...If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay in solid cash--the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.--Aldous HuxleyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-15661001624084133702010-04-06T12:20:01.942-04:002010-04-06T12:20:01.942-04:00Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consul...Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?--Ludwig van BeethovenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-64822923902045323482010-04-06T12:18:13.437-04:002010-04-06T12:18:13.437-04:00Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.-...Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.--Leonardo da VinciAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-19979224706352600882010-04-06T12:14:57.292-04:002010-04-06T12:14:57.292-04:00Art follows nature as well as it can, as a pupil f...Art follows nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master, thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.--DanteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-45523074438243600772010-04-06T12:12:08.988-04:002010-04-06T12:12:08.988-04:00There's so much mass commercial entertainment ...There's so much mass commercial entertainment that's so good and so slick, this is something that I don't think any other generation has confronted. I think it's the best time to be alive ever, and it's probably the best time to be a writer. I'm not sure it's the easiest time.--David Foster WalllaceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25133444.post-73086790072221046262010-04-06T12:07:43.053-04:002010-04-06T12:07:43.053-04:00Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, f...Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.--Miquel de CervantesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com