I'm thinking about Alan Turing's famous remark: "Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition." If one accepts those statements then a kind of continuum is created. Where does poetry come into the picture? Please talk about this among yourselves and let me know what you think. If you feel like it.
I, for one, have often thought that poetry is nothing but a preoccupation with limits.
Poetry is art. Poetry paints a reality from an individual's perspective. Poetry is a medium that allows people to reflect their unique views, perspectives, emotions, feelings...
ReplyDeleteI'm terrible at math, and I don't know what a differential equation is. But your statement, "poetry is nothing but a preoccupation with limits" hits home, a little painfully.
ReplyDeleteI thought pretty much everything
ReplyDeletewas a "preoccupation with limits". . .
poetry might be the language special case
I think your philosophy is concerned with limits. I'm not true that that's true of all poetry, tho. You mention Wittgenstein as the philosopher of limits. But what if there were a poetry of, say Deleuze, rather than Wittgenstein, a poetry of the BwO? I think there are such poetries. Tho of course it's possible to put anything into any box.
ReplyDeleteFor clarity: I mean your poetry, above not your philosophy. Tho I do think they're the same thing.
ReplyDeleteI cannot think about my poetics. If I do I destroy it. The only way I seem to be able to 'protect' what I write is to 'forget' about it. Could that be what makes me so bitter? But but but....it seems the difficulties (sorry about that) are what keep me going. Out.
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