Just came across this Ashbery quote:
"For me, poetry is very much the time it takes to unroll, the way music does. It's not a static, contemptible thing like a painting or a piece of sculpture."
I like how he compares a poem to a measure of time. When it's done happening, the poem is over. But (a question for anyone out there) what makes a poem less "contemptible" than a painting or piece of sculpture? Is there no unrolling of time when viewing a painting or sculpture?
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