The poet waits
for inspiration.
The philosopher dwells
upon existence.
Friday, August 23, 2019
Philosophy is normative: it tells us
what we're doing right
when we use a concept correctly,
what we're good at when know a thing.
Poetry is empirical: it tells us
what we're really seeing
when an emotion grips us, tightly,
whose power we are subject to.
We can distinguish lyrical poetry,
simple emotional notation,
from the epic, a poem containing
history, a diagram of power,
just as we can tell a syllogism,
a mere conceptual notation,
from a phenomenology of the spirit,
a world picture of the known.
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