Richard Rorty on poetry (vs prose):pic.twitter.com/lfIlwCOqmY
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Richard Rorty on poetry (vs prose):pic.twitter.com/lfIlwCOqmY
Jonathan Dubin Retweeted '*•:Ḟreyjạ:•*'
Insofar as what @utotranslucence is saying here is true https://twitter.com/utotranslucence/status/1135627804236582912 … (and I think it's very very true), poetry/verse(/metaphor?) seems to give you the most bang for your buck. The most feelings (and evocation, and expression of felt sense) "inside" the fewest words.
Jonathan Dubin added,
And so by walking around the world with more "chestnuts" in your back pocket, you're able to give this to yourself and others, on-demand. Case in point, @utotranslucence's tweet is one such a chestnut, and rivals whatever theoretical blog post could exist on the same point.
A friend remarked recently that they had written a whole blog post, which they later found out was as-well-said by a single line Proust had written.
This points at why it's probably worth spending a disproportionate amount of time (hours? weeks? years?) fiddling with the words (and the metaphors and the felt senses), trying to get everything just right.
I didn't really expand on why it points at this: the chestnuts that others have given me, that I've put in my back pocket, have nestled their way into my mind in a way that prose just doesn't.
Yes! When I write poetry I try to write things that haunt people.
Oooo, "haunt". Love it. I've been haunted by some of your words before, fwiw :) Nothing in your life is unbearable because you are already bearing it.https://thicketforte.com/2019/01/11/good-news/ …
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