Text of poem - OPINIONS. And this one says: 'Poetry is rhyming word for word'. And this one: 'Poetry is that which dies in translation'. 'It is the criticism of one art by another' Arnold murmurs. And Coleridge: 'Order beyond order'. 'And you?' I ask, looking at myself towards life's end in a pitiless mirror, 'What do you say poetry is?' No answer. Teeth must remain clenched on the sparerib of language I have rasped at fifty-odd years.
‘Opinions’ - #RSThomas
(Frieze, Issue 3, 1992)
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