09-12-2017, 10:22 PM
Jesus Christ, that is a loaded question.
OP, that is a very loaded question. I'm pretty sure I don't have the spiritual, moral, or philosophical acumen for this kind of discussion -- not without spouting out poetry, aka work I don't have to be fully conscious of. But considering this is a poetry forum...
Actually, even if this weren't a poetry forum, and even with my limited facilities, what exactly do you mean by "love", or by "beauty", or by "need"? Because if, in this discussion, there's no commonly agreed upon meaning for those three things, then the best answer would be "other", with all three terms being ultimately too ambiguous to lead to anything fruitful. Or am I supposed to supply my own definitions, in which case I refer to my second paragraph.
OP, that is a very loaded question. I'm pretty sure I don't have the spiritual, moral, or philosophical acumen for this kind of discussion -- not without spouting out poetry, aka work I don't have to be fully conscious of. But considering this is a poetry forum...
Actually, even if this weren't a poetry forum, and even with my limited facilities, what exactly do you mean by "love", or by "beauty", or by "need"? Because if, in this discussion, there's no commonly agreed upon meaning for those three things, then the best answer would be "other", with all three terms being ultimately too ambiguous to lead to anything fruitful. Or am I supposed to supply my own definitions, in which case I refer to my second paragraph.