03-31-2014, 10:14 AM
(03-31-2014, 09:46 AM)trueenigma Wrote: Try figuring out the "meaning" in his poems. In fact, try asking him what they "mean". I don't think even he knows or cares. He's been quoted many times saying (although not in so few words) that meaning is meaningless.I don't know. I personally think that's more affect than anything else. Which I can understand, because an artist (did I just say that?) wants their work to stand/speak for itself. I remember Picasso saying that he didn't know what his mural "Guernica" means, or is supposed to stand for (that pedestrian meaning thing). But I don't believe for a second that he wasn't chasing something down, going for something. The painting/mural was practically a modern myth unto itself.
And then there's one of the only mantras I've beaten into my own feeble little mind when it comes to poetry: Never explain, always express.
Anyway...
You can't hate me more than I hate myself. I win.
"When the spirit of justice eloped on the wings
Of a quivering vibrato's bittersweet sting."
"When the spirit of justice eloped on the wings
Of a quivering vibrato's bittersweet sting."