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THE POEM IS ALWAYS THE PRIZE Beware of winning prizes, because prizes can pull you away from your center, the locus of worth. Poetry is the countervailing force to falsehood. Poetry is the path to truth and away from pretension and fabrication. Notice I did not write perfection, for truth is never perfect, but it is always honest, and honesty, not perfection, is what humanity always needs. Sappho, Whitman, Dickinson, and Blake--none ever won a prize, but their poetry will always offer readers eternal beauty. Poets are more precious than politicians and profiteers, because the poem is always the prize. Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
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Feb 5, 2020
Feb 5, 2020 at 6:21 PM UTC
THE POEM IS ALWAYS THE PRIZE
THE POEM IS ALWAYS THE PRIZE Beware of winning prizes, because prizes can pull you away from your center, the locus of worth. Poetry is the countervailing force to falsehood. Poetry is the path to truth and away from pretension and fabrication. Notice I did not write perfection, for truth is never perfect, but it is always honest, and honesty, not perfection, is what humanity always needs. Sappho, Whitman, Dickinson, and Blake--none ever won a prize, but their poetry will always offer readers eternal beauty. Poets are more precious than politicians and profiteers, because the poem is always the prize. Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and human-rights advocate his entire adult life. He recently finished his novel, A CHILD FOR AMARANTH.
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Feb 5, 2020
Feb 5, 2020 at 6:21 PM UTC
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