Quotation of the Week:
The poet will never conceive his poem in advance of making it but in the act of making it, because in poetry there is no gap between speculation and action, no distance, no temporal interval. To create, one must create: it is this vicious circle, worthy of Monseiur de la Palisse, that signifies not just that creation always begins with itself, but also and as a consequence, that there is no recipe for learning to create. The creator sets down essence conjointly with existence, possibly at the same time as reality.
Jankelevich, Music and the Ineffable, p. 29