I seem to recall Matthew Arnold saying something along those lines, namely, that poetry might in time be a substitute for religion and science. Certainly both, in their institutionalized forms, have been found ridiculously wanting.
Certainly Bergson held all his life to the notion of the fleeting ephemera of objects in perception as the true stuff of life from which artists/poets draw. It's when they solidify into temporal objects that their language disappears.
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I seem to recall Matthew Arnold saying something along those lines, namely, that poetry might in time be a substitute for religion and science. Certainly both, in their institutionalized forms, have been found ridiculously wanting.
Certainly Bergson held all his life to the notion of the fleeting ephemera of objects in perception as the true stuff of life from which artists/poets draw. It's when they solidify into temporal objects that their language disappears.
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