I think about this quote often, and wonder what Borges meant. I suspect our conception of intelligence is incredibly limited & confining.
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Borges: "[I]ntelligence has little to do with poetry. Poetry springs from something deeper; it’s beyond intelligence. It may not even be linked with wisdom. It’s a thing of its own; it has a nature of its own. Undefinable."pic.twitter.com/cylWJkrREc
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Borges is pointing to where language resides: beyond individual usage yet shaped by individual usage, uncontrolled yet occasionally controlled by poets, advertising agencies, and by accident. Out of reach and yet in reach.
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...like Tao.
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@HarryDCrane, this may be relevant to our discussion.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Maybe he gets the feeling that poetry is discovered not invented because it unifies seemingly disparate things, and he may not realize this is the feeling when you go deep enough into anything considered ‘intelligent’.
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