“I wanted to break the linearity of poetic text to mess with it, if you will. The poem is meant to be a network rather than a single rope of thought.”

— Adunis

Adunis, in: " https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/books/18adonis.html" at nytimes, October 17, 2010

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Essayist, poet 1930

Henry Schriver (1914–2011) American politician

Cows, Kids, and Co-ops

“"I texted you on a Monday,
But you did not get my text 'till the Tuesday,
Because of a network problem.
I texted you on a Wednesday,
But I did not know that you'd called
Because your SIM card was not correctly installed.
Oh no no no.
You texted me on a Thursday
To say that you would meet me at the Shopping Centre
And i texted you back and said
"Where should i meet you?"
And you said Dixons
But i did not know which Dixons you meant
Was it the one inside the door
Or was it the one further up by Currys
These are my worries.
You texted me on a Monday
To tell me it was over
But i did not understand
Because you used Predictive Text
And it was Jrrg gruuh nnmmg guu hmmg doo doo doo".”

Bill Bailey (1965) English comedian, musician, actor, TV and radio presenter and author

Lyrics

“I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

“A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain…. The solution is not splicing the rope; it’s lessening the tension.”

Jack Vance book To Live Forever

Source: To Live Forever (1956), Chapter XVI, section 3

“The poetic image is not a static thing. It lives in time, as does the poem.”

Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) poet and political activist

Source: The Life of Poetry (1949), p. 32
Context: The poetic image is not a static thing. It lives in time, as does the poem. Unless it is the first image of the poem, it has already been prepared for by other images; and it prepares us for further images and rhythms to come. Even if it is the first image of the poem, the establishment of the rhythm prepares us — musically — for the music of the image. And if its first word begins the poem, it has the role of putting into motion all the course of images and music of the entire work, with nothing to refer to, except perhaps a title.