William Empson, Philip Larkin
Posted: June 25, 2011 Filed under: books, people, poetry 1 Comment
This evening I heard Philip Larkin in William Empson’s voice (Larkin followed Empson, of course):
Empson: The heart of standing is you cannot fly.
Harold Bloom talks about this back and forth influence that writer’s share. This is from Empson’s Let It Go:
It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange.
The more things happen to you the more you can’t
Tell or remember even what they were.
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Reminds me of “The Lathe of Heaven” by Ursula K. Le Guin. The plot revolves around a character whose dreams alter reality.
Nice to find you again Roy.
– Sam Adams