Does anyone else feel that philosophy kills the creativity needed for poetry and art?
Tag: literature
kawabata
your life in forty volumes
shows you had your art
from almost the very beginning
it only takes one word
an adjective perhaps
or an emotive one
to change the meaning
of the work, to give it
a nuance not found otherwise
be it a few pages or a hundred
unmistakably it was always there
and forty volumes later
you have had enough
Saul Bellow on Death
And Bankei said, “What is unborn cannot die”. Death is not to be feared or loathed but embraced. For it makes us appreciate life, this life, all the more.
youth, gone by
no message of thanks
like dropped stone into black well
waiting for an echo
complete silence
as though my letter
had never reached him
or else it had gone straight past
youth, selfishness
same thing
common curtesy out all windows
but i cannot be angry
all i can do is write a poem
for i was as young and
more selfish once
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