With reference to another conversation we were having recently, this
from a friend, seems pertinent:
The idea that emotions should have some special sort of sanctuary
inside poetry is the consequence of an aesthetic which I used to call
"toothpaste aesthetics." The poet is perceived of as existing inside a
tube containing passions and unstable emotional life. When you press on
this tube, feelings are expressed and turned into poetical expression.
Whatever you might think about this model, whatever it leads to, it
doesn't lead to poetry.--Lars Gustafsson, "A Defence of Poetry."
Well. Okay.
Doug
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the precision of openness
is not a vagueness
it is an accumulation
cumulous
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