‘The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry’

In Susan Sontag’s ‘On Photography’ (1977) she quotes Hannah Arendt writing about Walter Benjamin: “nothing was more characteristic of him in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried with him and in which he tirelessly entered in the form of quotations what daily living and reading netted him in … Continue reading ‘The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry’