What did Peter Porter say in "Salt"? "... the Australians see me almost as an ideas poet, and I always have to stress firmly that poets are not philosophers. I detest philosophy. I think philosophy as such is so codified that it is unworthy of the attention of an intelligent person. And that therefore what poets do is think. Thinking and philosophy don't seem to me to be the same thing at all. "
>>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".
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