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Perhaps ‘Occult Science’ is a more accurate description than ‘Dark Art’. As a science, it usually fails, because most poets are bad at it. Poetry is a form of magic, because it tries to change the way we perceive the world – that is to say that it aims to make the texture of our perception malleable. It does so by surreptitious and devious means, by seeding and planting things in the memory and imagination of the reader with such force and insidious originality that they cannot be deprogrammed. What you remember changes how you think. So an occult science is exactly what the practice -as distinct from the study – of poetry is.

Don Patterson, “The Dark Art Of Poetry”.
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