Humor: the Divine Butcher
Posted: December 19th, 2004, 1:03 pm
"Poetry is news, and news is poetry, if it conveys more than information, more than word of happenings, if it is also news of the soul, news of the passions, news of living and loving and dying in all its subjective depths. Which doesn't mean it has to be dead serious, though humor is "the divine butcher" (as Gregory Corso said) since it destroys deep passion and sublimity in poetry."
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti