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Your comment reminds me of the line from Dead Poets Society: _We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members

Your comment reminds me of the line from Dead Poets Society: _We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for._ PS: how good was that movie?! So Good!

lisper 6y ago
It's a noble sentiment, but poetry means different things to different people. Personally, I get a much bigger kick out of a well written snippet of Lisp code than I do from your typical sonnet. Here's a poem I wrote back in high school in reaction to the famous quote, "Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads", which I was taught was by Emily Dickinson but turns out to actually be by Marianne Moore. In any case... A poem is a thought that tried In vain, just once, before it died To reach the page's Right hand side ;-)
- kian 6y ago
  Thank you for that beautiful sentiment. They're only words, and always spoken much too late to stay -- only for a moment, then they take the breath away
runawaybottle 6y ago
It’s good but someone well attuned please quote some poetry that speaks of the viciousness of a brick wall met by toil. That’s when you got to get real. The romanticism of good faith and idealism is romantic, but a lot of good expression is rooted in despair. I see despair in that anecdote, the desperate plea of ‘don’t you see what I feel?’. We have to infer that such an unstated thing needed to be dramatically expressed, for no other reason than catharsis. Which leads us to the conclusion that, yes, there is a story of sadness here.
sdht0 6y ago
This good quote can be interpreted better by realizing that those two groups are not mutually exclusive. There is sufficient poetry, beauty, romance, and love in medicine, law, business, and engineering. I just finished watching Manolis Kellis explain [0] how computational biology is transforming our understanding of the human genome and changing how we treat diseases. Who will argue that this is not a gripping story of how humanity has risen in it's ability to understand how the world works and consequently to control it. This exciting adventure has both passion in the seekers and beauty in what they have found. And of course there are endless songs (e.g., [1][2]) already written about this noble pursuit. [0] "Decoding a Genomic Revolution: Manolis Kellis at TEDxCambridge" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlVZ0ORtpPM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlVZ0ORtpPM [1] "The Molecular Shape of You (Ed Sheeran Parody)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8FAJXPBdOg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8FAJXPBdOg [2] "A Capella Science - Rolling in the Higgs (Adele Parody)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtItBX1l1VY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtItBX1l1VY

lisper 6y ago

It's a noble sentiment, but poetry means different things to different people. Personally, I get a much bigger kick out of a well written snippet of Lisp code than I do from your typical sonnet. Here's a poem I wrote back in high school in reaction to the famous quote, "Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads", which I was taught was by Emily Dickinson but turns out to actually be by Marianne Moore. In any case... A poem is a thought that tried In vain, just once, before it died To reach the page's Right hand side ;-)

kian 6y ago
Thank you for that beautiful sentiment. They're only words, and always spoken much too late to stay -- only for a moment, then they take the breath away

runawaybottle 6y ago

It’s good but someone well attuned please quote some poetry that speaks of the viciousness of a brick wall met by toil. That’s when you got to get real. The romanticism of good faith and idealism is romantic, but a lot of good expression is rooted in despair. I see despair in that anecdote, the desperate plea of ‘don’t you see what I feel?’. We have to infer that such an unstated thing needed to be dramatically expressed, for no other reason than catharsis. Which leads us to the conclusion that, yes, there is a story of sadness here.

sdht0 6y ago

This good quote can be interpreted better by realizing that those two groups are not mutually exclusive. There is sufficient poetry, beauty, romance, and love in medicine, law, business, and engineering. I just finished watching Manolis Kellis explain [0] how computational biology is transforming our understanding of the human genome and changing how we treat diseases. Who will argue that this is not a gripping story of how humanity has risen in it's ability to understand how the world works and consequently to control it. This exciting adventure has both passion in the seekers and beauty in what they have found. And of course there are endless songs (e.g., [1][2]) already written about this noble pursuit. [0] "Decoding a Genomic Revolution: Manolis Kellis at TEDxCambridge" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlVZ0ORtpPM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlVZ0ORtpPM [1] "The Molecular Shape of You (Ed Sheeran Parody)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8FAJXPBdOg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8FAJXPBdOg [2] "A Capella Science - Rolling in the Higgs (Adele Parody)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtItBX1l1VY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtItBX1l1VY