The pre-Socratic philosophers like Parmenides and Heracleitus wrote
their tracts in hexameters.
At 4:40 PM +1000 29/7/2000, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> >Philosophy is major poetry.
>
>Er - I'd say Tractatus might qualify. Bits of The Gay Science. Some of
>more extreme passages of EM Cioran - and no doubt others
>
>so I'm not against the idea.
>
>But I think that on the whole, that is manifestly not the case. I rather
>incline to Baudelaire's comment: that "poetry must be a debacle of the
>intellect".
>
>Cheers
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