“The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is reading and recitation: participation.”
Edward Hirsch (1950)
How to Read a Poem And Fall in Love with Poetry (1998)
“There's a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. As far as I was concerned, this was the latter.”
— Roberto Bolaño, book The Savage Detectives
Variant: There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
Source: The Savage Detectives
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