[lit-ideas] Re: Philosophy poem
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 07:05:56 +0000 (UTC)
What cannot be explained, do not explain.>
How do we know what "cannot be explained" unless we first try to explain it?
DnlSchool of How Knowledge Actually Works And AdvancesPopperland
On Thursday, 23 April 2015, 0:45, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Amen.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
PhilosophyThere is a place to which I often go,
Not by planning to, but by a flow
Away from all existence, to a cold
Lucidity, whose will is uncontrolled.
Here, the mills of God are never slow.
The landscape in its geological prime
Dissolves to show its quintessential slime.
A million stars are blotted out. I think
Of each historic passion as a blink
That happened to the sad eye of Time.
But residues of meaning still remain,
As darkest myths meander through the pain
Towards a final formula of light.
I, too, reject this clarity of sight.
What cannot be explained, do not explain.
The mundane language of the senses sings
Its own interpretations. Common things
Become, by virtue of their commonness,
An argument against their nakedness
That dies of cold to find the truth it brings.
Nissim Ezekiel
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John McCreery
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