poetry and truth… that was the name of Goethe’s autobiography…
since the days of the Greeks, Poets were thought to have
a direct connection to the gods…… they were honored and
vilified and given the highest seat and thrown into jail……
Plato wanted to ban the poet because his verse too incendiary for
the common man……….
and this was true until, until the “modern” age…
few poets of the 20 century were even noticed
and those who were noticed are the honored “unread”…great poets
who no one actually reads… but their name gets a place in
in the textbooks as “great” poets of the 20th century…
Rilke is one such name…
but the real question becomes, why have we killed the poets?
who writes poetry and who reads it? you might as well be
making prayers to Ra as so far as writing poetry… for all the good it will do you…
why have we lost the feel, the touch for poems?
what has happened to poetry?
we have our truths, oh, we have so many truths, we need
years, decades to understand and remember them…
the earth is 93 million miles from earth
and New York has 8 million people…
and the dinosaurs died 65 million years ago…
do those truths equal this truth…
Nur im Raum der ruhmung darf die Klage
gehn, die Nymphe des geweinten Quells……
I leave it untranslated on purpose…….
we have cast out poetry because we have cast
out of paradise… emotions, feelings, sentiments……
in our name, IQ45 has separated children including infants from their parents
and most of the country has a collective yawn…
if a Kardashian has a hangnail, the country will hold a telethon to raise money
for such a crisis for humanity……………
in losing the example of poetry, we have lost our understanding of
what is really important…………… we have lost our ability of
discovering what is really important, emotionally, in feelings,
in sentiments……………….
we have clowns like IQ45 who “feel” that important matters are
emotional… they have opinions that they disguise as facts……
and they think that their feelings are a substitute for logic
and facts and “truth” but that is different from what I am talking about…
we cannot overcome our emotions until we understand that they
are a part of us, they are an essential part of us… when
we think we our reasoning, we are really emotionally weighing
out our options, not with logic or rational thought, but with
feeling, with us being emotional……….
we cannot tell the difference between our emotions
and our rational thought……. we think they are the same thing…
they are not…………
and this failure has cost us our poets, our poetry…
why have poets, when we can’t even tell the difference
between emotions and rational thought…………
Kropotkin