Do I desire to be beneath or on par with him?
What he writes resonates in an uncertain earthquake inside me. I think I would like to meet the man, if only to hear his speak. But I do not want to know about his history, his upbringing or desires. I want to forever commemorate him as I perceive him now, crystallised in his intelligence and perception.
And I do not want to make paper wings of his observations nor to decorate notepads or studies with them. It is only a superficial showcase of my own "intelligence". I would rather silently devour each word, not like nectar but maybe with a child's distaste of brocolli, the way that a denied truth should be taken.
That way I will wear his etchings on the inside and be insulated by the chance that, one day, I may understand them and peer through the mundane as he once did.
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I love the way you write :) What you do is take what I feel and think and put them into words when I can't. I've never read Nietchze but this is exactly how I feel about the poet W.B. Yeats. I looove his stuff but sometimes I have no idea what a particular poem is about. And it doesn't matter. One day I might but for now I'm content with just drinking in the words and letting them sit in my brain. I love the way they make me feel
ReplyDeleteYeats is an insanely talented poet. Sometimes I wonder if, when we tear apart the poem to see its bones, whether we're destroying the wonder we held for it.
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