Maurice Blanchot:
“Symbolic reading is probably the worst way to read a literary text. Each time we are bothered by language that is too strong, we say: it is a symbol. … Yet, if prophetic words reach us, what they make us feel is that they possess neither allegory nor symbol.
[…] It is a speech that takes up all of space and that is still essentially not fixed.”
(“Prophetic Speech,” The Book to Come, tr. Charlotte Mandell)" --@yoonkim.bsky.social
"he brings butterflies -
love or warning, who can tell
if these deep fractures
spreading across wounded heart
are kintsugi or lightning?"
--@aminahhughes.bsky.social
What does poetry save you from?
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