Posts Tagged ‘language’
The Meaning of Words: Rob Riemen on Art and Communication
Posted: August 26, 2009
Tags: Plato, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Orwell, art, Friedrich Nietzsche
“When words no longer tell the truth, when words turn into lies, language dies, and we with the language. It is the first and foremost task of every poet, of every novelist, to write meaningful words, to write truthful words. You don’t have to be religious, or a philosopher, or a great expert on Plato to realize that a language cannot be without truth.”
Creating the Chorus: Joshua Kryah and the Question of Faith
“…the poem that is crafted as well as it can be crafted sometimes winds up just ‘saying’ something; it’s saying this about language, or it’s saying this about faith, or it’s saying this about the Beloved, or the condition of love. Whereas right now what I want to do is speak. I want, not to pronounce, but to let the poems go further than they usually have, or that I’ve allowed them to go.”
Fiction as Fibbing: Benjamin Taylor
Posted: November 25, 2008
Tags: John von Neumann, Philip Roth, Baader-Meinhoff, Edward Teller, Vladimir Nabokov
“It’s about fifty percent based on certain things I know from real life, and about fifty percent made up out of nothing, just out of daydreaming. I think that’s the way it should be. This is not memoir, this is not autobiography, this is not confession. It’s fibbing. It’s making things up.”
