11. Preservation of a secret

„Any explanations poets may give about what they do primarily serve the preservation of a secret. Vague as this secret may be, all poets, in their own individual ways, will hold on to it and barricade themselves behind it.“ —Durs Grünbein, The Poem and Its Secret

The Poem and Its Secret
by Durs Grünbein
from The Bars of Atlantis: Selected Essays,
edited by Michael Eskin; translated by John Crutchfield, Michael Hofmann and Andrew Shields