Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Poetry is in everything



"Poetry is in everything—in land and in sea, in lake and in riverside.  It is in the city too... it is evident to me here as I sit: there is poetry in this table, in this paper, in this inkstand... in the rattling of cars on the streets, in each minute, common, ridiculous motion of a workman, who the other side of the street is painting the sign of a butcher's shop."


Fernando Pessoa: Always Astonished (San Francisco: City Lights, 1988) p1.