One can say anything to language. This is why it is a listener, closer to us than any silence or any god. Yet its very openness often signifies indifference. (The indifference of language is continually solicited and employed in bulletins, legal records, communiqués, files.) Poetry addresses language in such a way as to close this indifference and to incite a caring.
—John Berger, “The Hour of Poetry,” Selected Essays (Vintage, 2001)
2 comments:
J for J,
Yes, this is what gives cause for
Hope
James,
Ah, now that is an interesting way to express it!
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