It is so lonely to feel deeply about the world and be met with the complete failure of language to communicate it. Poetry gets us marginally (but importantly!) closer than rhetorical language, like how standing on a roof gets one a few feet closer to grabbing a star than standing in the dirt. It makes the loneliness of being here a little easier to bear.
Kaveh Akbar, ”Galloping Towards Delight: A Conversation with Kaveh Akbar and Ilya Kaminsky”, published in Magma Issue 83, Solitude, Summer 2022
Kaveh Akbar, ”Galloping Towards Delight: A Conversation with Kaveh Akbar and Ilya Kaminsky”, published in Magma Issue 83, Solitude, Summer 2022
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The whole art is to know how to disappear before dying and instead of dying. At any rate, nothing just vanishes; of everything that disappears there remain traces. The problem is what remains when everything has disappeared…like the judgement of God: God disappears, but he leaves behind his judgement…We may thus suppose that everything that disappears--institutions, values, prohibitions, ideologies, even ideas--continues to lead a clandestine existence and exert an occult influence…Everything that disappears seeps back into our lives in infinitesimal doses, often more dangerous than the visible authority that ruled over us.
Jean Baudrillard, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?
Jean Baudrillard, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?
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