Poetry manifesto

[Will Dockery]

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Arthur Rimbaud: on the poet as visionary

A poet makes himself a visionary through a long,
boundless, and
systematized disorganization of all the senses. All
forms of love, of
suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he
exhausts within himself
all poisons, and preserves their quintessences.
Unspeakable torment,
where he will need the greatest faith, a superhuman
strength, where he
becomes among all men the great invalid, the great
criminal, the great
accurses - and the Supreme Scientist! For he attains
the unknown!
Because he has cultivated his soul, already rich, more
than anyone! He
attains the unknown, and if, demented, he finally
loses the
understanding of his visions, he will at least have
seen them! So what
if he is destroyed in his ecstatic flight through
things unheard of,
unnameable: other horrible workers will come; they
will begin at the
horizons where the first one has fallen!

"Zorro's Medicine Show" [Will Dockery]
http://www.lulu.com/items/108000/108474/1/preview/03-Loft1.MPG


"God Smiles" [Will Dockery]
http://www.lulu.com/items/26000/26881/preview/Irony_Waves_-_Track__5.mp3





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Art, music, poetry of Will Dockery:
http://www.lulu.com/dockery





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