עוד סימיק על שירה והסטוריה

 "History written by historians, as we know, speculates about the cause and meanings of cataclysmic events and the motives of statesmen involved in them. Foucault says: 'We want historians to confirm our belief that the present rests upon profound intentions and immutable necessities. But the true historical sense confirms our existence among countless lost events without a landmark or a point of reference'. This is where the poets come in. In place of the historian's broad sweep, the poet gives us  a kind of reverse history  of what in the great scheme of things are often regarded as ' unimportant' events, the image of a dead cat, say. lying in the rubble of a bombed city, rather than the rationale for that air campaign."