RE: kafka and rilke

Damm it Jim, get out of my head, or cloud? I replied and then opened this
up.
Daniel

Yeah, sounds great and less filling, to pull a Daniel on you :). It's
an essentially sentimental, meaningless definition of poetry. "That
which happens," in the experiential terms below, could happen just as
well from a speech, a novel, a sermon, a film, a painting, a sculpture,
music -- it's simply a nice (almost poetic :) ) description of an
aesthetic experience, which could just as well arise from any medium,
not just poetry.

Heck, I experienced this bodysurfing when I was 16. And in some sexual
experiences.

Of course, a romantic definition of poetry would call anything that
provoked this kind of an aesthetic experience poetry, but that would
also be a useless definition of poetry. If you can call everything
poetry, there's no sense calling anything poetry.

Jim

Kim Johnson wrote:
> i'm flattered to think my little post has caused the
> creation of a state university!
>
> i'm enjoying the thread.
>
> and, so far, this is what i'm most grateful for:
>
>
>
>>the poem is that which
>>happens, it is the event, loud
>>or silent, seen or heard, sung or spoken, dreamt or
>>burnt in the heart.
>
>
>
> --kim
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