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on Poetry and Mistakes (Madeline Gins)

08/21/2010 11:49 am / Leave a Comment / chris

“Poetry couples the making of the biggest mistakes possible with the making of the fewest and probably the loveliest. Of course, philosophy, the entire discipline, stands as the biggest, and conceivably the best, mistake of poetry.”

–Madeline Gins
found in Helen Keller or Arakawa

Posted in: Ars Poetica, Contents, Creators, Madeline Gins / Tagged: philosophy, poetry, writing

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