Me too Liz. Poetry is a beautiful excess, a redundancy. There's a
passage by Barthes somewhere where he talks about lyric poets and
lovers being wilfully redundant: "I love you" is a tautology, so why
is it said? Of course he says it much more elegantly at that. I
seem to recall there's a bit of Nietzschean dancing on the abyss in
the argument, but I may be misremembering.
best
Alison
>I have been considering this too........
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>my thought is that poetry exceeds meaning
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>Liz
>x
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