Poetry

[claymedeiros]

“Only poetry in this larger sense-only the art of language -makes possible a full understanding of an art work’s ‘world.’ Language, the distinctively human possession, was what allows” stone, plant and animal” to be fully perceived, in a way that they can’t perceive themselves. “Where there is no language…there is also openness of what is, “

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[thegreatxavier]

Ezra Pound expounds on a similar issue with the similarities between paint pigments and vocabulary, and choosing the appropriate tools in poetry and art.

I think you'd really like it.
In fact, my profile has some quotes regarding to this.

So wonderfully thought-provoking.

[claymedeiros]

I like the profuse and word play. Although Aristotle said moderation in all things, passion in poetry, art and love have their wondrous place. There is a need for balance to make the poem work and draw the reader or listener in.

The Pound piece is great. The connection between pigement and language makes sense to me. I was just reading a piece in the New York Review of Books about Seurat who integrated the sceince of color into his painting. I like his conte drawiings best with the almost hidden images where the lack of color brings out the form. Color and the actual application of it drive meaning as well as the sensual reaciton to it.

Just as art is polyphonic, so are the writer and the reader. Once the poem is out there, the reader or listener bring their own sensibility to it and may take it beyond any intention the writer may have consciously had.