Interviews & Posts Tagged ' language '

• August, 2009 The Meaning of Words: Rob Riemen on Art and Communication

  Tags: art, culture, language, nonfiction, philosophy, Thomas Mann
  Published in Interviews

  

  “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.”
• December, 2008 Creating the Chorus: Joshua Kryah and the Question of Faith

  Tags: faith, language, music, poetry, quotation
  Published in Interviews

  

  “…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.”