Dichten

A blog of Poetry: to say, to speak, the verb for to make poetry, dichten. Poetry is the condition for the possibility of philosophy, the condition that fulfills its own condition, a sort of causa sui that doesn't leap but grounds in its disdain for the question of ground. This blog hates itself in its metaphysics, but achieves the height of nothing...

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"In addition to the choice of words, positioning of words, and the sequencing of words, it is above all the entire overall resonance of the poetic telling that "expresses" the so-called meaning. Yet this overall resonance of the telling is not simply the result of the positioning of words and arranging of lines, but rather the reverse: the overall resonance of the telling is the initial, creative resonance that first intimates the language; it is the origin not only for the arranging and positioning of the words, but also for the choice of words, an origin that in its resonance constantly anticipates the use of words. This overall resonance of the telling, however, is from the outset determined by the fundamental attunement of the poetry, which takes form within the inner outline of the whole. The fundamental attunement for its part grows out of the particular metaphysical locale of the poetry in question." Martin Heidegger, Hoelderlin's hymns "Germania" and "The Rhine", translated by William McNeill, not yet published.

Saturday, October 30, 2004

Prophesy

I've opened three packs today
cigarettes are addictive
what?
Empathy
Bed...sounds good
but I'm so alive!
The same when asleep though,
to remember my dreams,
never happens!
Record when it does,
but something else arises
too quickly
and the truth, accurate
prediction, prophesy
escapes consciousness
at a gallop:
perhaps I subconsciously think
Its better not to know
now that I know that
IT I can know: anticipation.
No one believes
that this is possible:
the future will come
no fun if you think
what it may will be like:
it proves to be too close
and makes itself real
really as thought before
which could never have
achieved truth or reality.
It is a...?...?...?
Where the ? is answered
by the ... at least in
the subjective mind
where thought makes
everything it thinks be.

Black is the night
that resounds in the eardrums
pressure pops
LOUD
is the silence.
It is noise that calms the soul
from its troubling itself:
this is why people need to escape!

So stupid are these people that refuse to listen or succumb to intelligence!

Yet when I decide to speak about the meaningless banter they discuss they become overwhelmed and attempt to understand, to respond, yet they need me to rephrase, reiterate ideas that I have expressed so precisely and so simply, entirely relevant, and I cannot make these ideas any simpler! So I give up, I cannot teach. Or else I need to not care whether they understand or not and just keep speaking without expecting an intelligent response: I must respond to myself!

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