. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . where ImagInatIon comes to play

Monday 14 March 2011

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         I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets 
  to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, 
such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their 
sublime messages 
without knowing 
in the least 
what they mean.
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SOCRATES. .. .. .. ....... .. .. ..
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3 comments:

Ralph Markham said...

Ah Socratic philosophy. Leaves you with more questions and few answers. Both frustrating and perfect at once.

Carol Blackburn said...

Very astute!

Rick Nilson said...

William Burroughs got a Pulitzer Prize for literature when he took newpaper clippings and cut them into strips and rearranged the words. who knew genius.