July 20, Notes over Breakfast -- poetry musings

Notes over breakfast -- Gerard De Nerval, "ancient energies" poet. Late 1800's.

[all from News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness Bly]

German tradition of "animal thinkers" Boehme & alchemists, Goethe and Novalis, Rilke.

Spanish: Jimenez, Machado, Lorca.

North America: Jeffers, Wallace Stevens.

Wow -- Wallace Stevens "Anecdote of Men by the Thousand."
"Whales weep Not" D.H. Lawrence

               Oceans

    I have a feeling that my boat
has struck, down there in the depths, 
against a great thing. 
                    And nothing
happens!  Nothing... Silence... Waves... 

--Nothing happens?  Or has everything happened, 
and are we standing now, quietly, in the new life?

                     Juan Ramon Jimenez

God! I love those spaniards: Reminder: look for good translations, Jimenez, Lorca, Machado, Vallejo.