“We begin to say something that cannot be said. When you see on the front page a woman in Iraq whos just seen her husband blown up, you see her there, her mouth wide open, you know the sound coming out of her, a howl of grief and pain thats the beginning of language. Trying to express that, its inexpressible, and poetry is really to say what cant be said. And thats why people turn to it in these moments. They dont know how to say this, [but] part of them feels that maybe a poem will say it. It wont say it, but itll come closer to saying it than anything else will. I think there are always two sides, and one of them is the unsayable. The utterly singular. Who you are; who you can never tell anybody. And on the other hand, there is what you can express. How do we know about this thing we talk about? Because we talk about it. Were using words. And the words never say it, but the words are all we have to say it. W.S. Merwin
Posted on: Tue, 20 May 2014 12:10:15 +0000
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