These fragments I have shored against my ruins. -T.S. Eliot

These fragments I have shored against my ruins.  -T.S. Eliot
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Showing posts with label James Glaisher. Show all posts

Saturday, December 8, 2012

There is a language older by far and deeper than words



























 
 
 
"The very function of poetry is to be as universal as possible, 
 
and that demands that we rectify, simplify, enlarge our lived 
 
experience, so that our words have properties that make them 
 
on the whole comprehensible and lived anew—the reader must 
 
understand that what is obscure in the poem proves that words 
 
should not be reduced to a game of concepts, which in turn 
 
would engender ideology, death. It is not a question of 
 
understanding a poem concept by concept, for that would mean 
 
tearing it away from its basis, which is not thought but 
 
experience.”
Yves Bonnefoy

Image: James Glaisher, Travels in the Air, 1871
Title: Derrick Jensen