> ... though the enacted subject is a sad one, the act of performing it is joyous because it leads the poet to true equivalents of his feeling. In art a true equivalence (no matter of what) is always a joyous capture.
#JohnCiardi in #HowDoesAPoemMean made me think of #Camus in #TheRebel on #DespairingLiterature, that there can not be a #LiteratureOfDespair, We read for #JoyousCapture, I guess. #Poetry #Poem #LitCrit

> To talk of despair is to conquer it. Despairing literature is a contradiction in terms.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/albert-camus-the-rebel#fn78
#TheRebel #LiteratureOfDespair #DespairingLiterature