Only where there is language is there world. --Martin Heidegger
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The word that fits would mime the genesis. --Michel Deguy
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Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes.
... that a whole world of lament arose, in which
all nature reappeared: forest and valley,
road and village, field and stream and animal;
and that around this lament-world, even as
around the other earth, a sun revolved
and a silent, star-filled heaven, a lament-
heaven, with its own, disfigured stars ...
Ein Klage-Himmel, "a lament-heaven," from Rilke's "Orpheus. Eurydike. Hermes." Poetry's post-rupture, post-lapsus, post-death-of-Eurydice dream of recreating that primal world -- Eden, childhood, Orpheus's singing -- where word and thing were one.
6 comments:
I wish I could live in October forever! :) And a river walk! My favourite things!
Bonjour James,
hier, j'ai commencé un tableau d'automne...
J'espère que tout va bien pour toi !
merci pour ces belles photos.
@ bientôt.....
Jo
Marion: I don't know why there must be other months :-)
Jo: Merci. Je viens bientôt chez toi chercher ce tableau :-) ....
beautiful
Aripi de fluture: Thank you.
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