3. Musen

Woher kommt das Gedicht? Von den Musen, wußte Hesiod, und Robert Graves ergänzt: “No poet grows conscious of the Muse, except by experience of a woman in whom the Goddess is to some degree resident.”

Der amerikanische Lyriker Michael Hickey  beginnt ein Gedicht so:

POETRY HAPPENS

By Michael Hickey

Poetry happens:
It begins sometime when
I stare glassily out a window,
Or while strolling by the seashore, seeing
God’s hand wave to me from the surf.
Occasionally I even hear
God’s silent, creative voice;
Today God sounds a lot
Like Shakespeare…

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