{"id":722,"date":"2008-03-02T19:21:14","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T02:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=722"},"modified":"2008-04-13T14:39:52","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T21:39:52","slug":"poet-must-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/poet-must-choose\/","title":{"rendered":"when the poet must choose"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Comes a time when the poet must choose: either to step<br \/>\ndeep in the stream of his people, history, tradition, folding and<br \/>\nfolding himself in wealth of persons and pasts; philosophy,<br \/>\nhumanity, to become richly foundationed and great and sane<br \/>\nand ordered. Or, to step beyond the bound onto the way out,<br \/>\ninto horrors and angels, possible madness or silly Faustian<br \/>\ndoom, possible utter transcendence, possible enlightened return,<br \/>\npossible ignominious wormish perishing. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Snyder, <em>Earth House Hold<\/em>, p 39<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about this contrast lately, it&#8217;s interesting although probably false. <\/p>\n<p>I like the idea of the poet flirting with the possibility of wormish perishing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comes a time when the poet must choose: either to step deep in the stream of his people, history, tradition, folding and folding himself in wealth of persons and pasts; philosophy, humanity, to become&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}