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Despite all my rational efforts; all the maths and research - there is a speck of insight that only poetry and literature can reach. It's irritating and comfort
by uniqueuid 4y ago
Despite all my rational efforts; all the maths and research - there is a speck of insight that only poetry and literature can reach. It's irritating and comforting at the same time.
- vagab0nd 4y agoThank you for this. This is exactly how I felt but could not articulate.
- uniqueuid 4y agoThanks, that makes me happy. You might also like this phrase I adore, which expresses the same sentiment in a more general way: "And the words slide into the slots ordained by syntax, and glitter as with atmospheric dust with those impurities which we call meaning." Of course, Anthony Burgess is much more of a poet than I am.
- sydthrowaway 4y agoAll the world’s combined poetry and literature won’t get you to the moon, or solve the world’s energy crisis. It’s all a bunch of tosh - don’t stop building.
- objectivetruth 4y ago[dead]
- uniqueuid 4y agoI never said that poetry gets you to the moon. But when you’re there - how do you cope with the heat death of the universe, or the loss of your close ones, or how do you justify being there? How do you find joy in your mornings, and how do you empathise with others, the living and the once-living?
- marginalia_nu 4y agoAll the mathematics in the world can't tell you why you would want to go to the moon.
- bcbrown 4y agoTo get to the moon, you first have to want to get to the moon. Literature excels at disseminating dreams and desires.
- messe 4y agoNo, but it might make you just as happy or fulfilled.