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Posts Tagged ‘Martin Heidegger’
The Meaning of Words: Rob Riemen on Art and Communication
“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.”
Crafting Connection: Christina Davis Reaches Out
“I think I’ve always been fascinated by freedom and the fear of freedom — and, among poets, the quest for some containment or some instruction, the quest for some criterion, for some way to know whether what we’re speaking is correct, or appropriate, or arriving somewhere.”
