Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.
Interpretation
Honesty is fundamental in art, as it reflects the truth in poetry and human connections.
This quote by Paul Celan emphasizes the interconnection between truthfulness and artistic expression. He suggests that just as a handshake symbolizes genuine human interaction and trust, a poem crafted with sincerity conveys authentic emotion and experience. The implication is that both art and human relationships thrive on honest engagement, which leads to the creation of meaningful, impactful work.
In practice
In a poetry workshop, to encourage authenticity in writing.
With a changing key, you unlock the house where the snow of whatβs silenced drifts. Just like the blood that bursts from Your eye or mouth or ear, so your key changes. Changing your key changes the word That may drift with flakes. Just like the wind that rebuffs you, Clenched round your word is the snow.
Poetry is a sort of homecoming.
A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the βnot always greatly hopeful-belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense too are under way: they are making toward something. Toward what? Toward something standing open, occupiable, perhaps toward an addressable Thou, toward an addressable reality.
Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle
no one bears witness for the witness
in the air, there your root remains, there, in the air
If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.
Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution of an idea.
Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound.
Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.
The red and white and starry blue _x000D_ Is freedom's shield and hope.
Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.
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