"Anything shut in with you can sing"
 

Gertrude Stein on the poetry of England:
 
"the poetry of England is so much what it is, it is the poetry of the things with which any of them are shut in in their daily completely daily island life. It makes very beautiful poetry because anything shut in with you can sing"

> from Charles Bernstein's A Poetics (1992)

> tagged with #everyday_life, #beauty, #language, #poetry

> created Mar 5, 2025 at 8:01:19 AM


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