Retallack on "the great perennial question of poetics"
 

Retallack: "nothing should make us happier than the process of filling empty words with the process of filling empty words with the process ... though not all empty words stimulate this process. The difference between those that do and those that don't is the great perennial question of poetry."
 
"But one thing is certain, immediately accessible 'finished' texts which leave us in a state of unadulterated passivity won't do"
 
see also her remark on "movement" in poetry (in separate note)

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