Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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