You had given up by the 1970s,
Just as I realised the 'art'
in accountancy is to reveal the beauty
in the numbers; and later,
writing contracts for a living,
that 'art' is in the beauty of the words.
Thank you for your verse:
Poetry is in everything,
including business documents,
that captures our imagination.
Jun 24, 2016
Jun 24, 2016 at 6:44 AM UTC
You had given up by the 1970s,
Just as I realised the 'art'
in accountancy is to reveal the beauty
in the numbers; and later,
writing contracts for a living,
that 'art' is in the beauty of the words.
Thank you for your verse:
Poetry is in everything,
including business documents,
that captures our imagination.
Refer to her 1921 poem in the Norton Anthology, which I paraphrase: "Poetry... I too dislike it ... Reading it however with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine ..."
