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In Memoriam Ayyappa Paniker (1930-2006)
All creation carries a seed of mystery .The creation of poetry is also a mysterious process. Even the poet may not know its secret. What happens in each poem is a divine birth where human and superhuman powers come together unexpectedly yet inevitably as if predetermined in some unknown fashion. By the time the poet's energy or vitality gets transformed into the poem, the same radiating energy kills a part of the poet. The birth of a poem is a memorial to that destruction, that partial death. It is doubtful whether this creative power can ever be analyzed and understood by the destructive acts of simple reason. Those who have known that power do not need analysis; those who have not known its force have no use for it. The best method is to know creation through creation. All good poems are the result of a divine union so that each poem is obscure, yet each will have a dim halo around it To reveal the sources of the inspiration of poetry is even more difficult than writing a poem; what the poet can do is only to speak about his state of mind or the circumstances of his life when he wrote a poem.....Ayyappa Paniker
Rati Saxena
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