Thoughts on poetry
"A poem always runs the risk of being meaningless, and would be nothing without this." -Jacques Derrida
"Poetry, unlike lawyers, guns, and money doesn't make anything (or supply its own interpretation" -Auden, paraphrased
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Other random thoughts:
Pop music, one essayist writes, always tells us that our emotions are real. Perhaps this is why we identify with it so much.
T.S. Eliot's fear of a state-run church: that "a national church might become a nationalistic church." Robert Nisbet argues that in this country "Christ the redeemer and America the Redeemer Nation have existed side by side."
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We talked about Jacques Derrida on the 2nd day of World Lit class. I like the quote about pop music. I don't think it applies only to pop music.
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