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Posts Tagged ‘Walt Whitman’
The Meaning of Words: Rob Riemen on Art and Communication
Posted: August 26, 2009
Tags: Elizabeth Mann-Borgese, Socrates, Leone Ginzburg, nonfiction, 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.”
Fiction as Fibbing: Benjamin Taylor
Posted: November 25, 2008
Tags: Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Roth, John von Neumann, Symbionese Liberation Army, Saul Bellow
“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.”
