Vice Versa?

Does one keep at it
until it becomes
a paragraph or

does the prose
by sheer persistence
produce the poem?

Tractatus Pathetico-Poeticus 1-1.21

1 History is all that befalls us. (History is everyone who is on my case.)

1.1 The elements of history are acts, not people.

1.11 History appropriates what happens, thereby making them our acts.

1.12 For the elemental act appropriates both what went down and who did it.

1.13 Acts in a time of pathos are history.

1.2 History gathers the acts.

1.21 Shit happens. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

How is a fact articulated?
Like a sentence, in imagination.

How is an act articulated?
Like a fact.

Philosophy will always sacrifice truth
for precision, as poetry will justice.

It takes courage to reach the ideal.
Curiosity drives us towards the real.

Pleasure, I have said, is to power,
as certainty to knowledge. But
perhaps it is not mere pleasure
that we seek; perhaps it is felicity.

To see the truth and be sure.
To do good and be happy.

Certainty is the end of epistemology, its goal. (If we were always and easily sure there would be no need for epistemology.)

Felicity is the end of ethics, its goal. (Happiness is the highest good and if it were easy there would be no need for ethics.)

It Is Neither

It displays no intellect,
just makes predictions.
Its output is, not artifice,
but fabrication.

There is a sense in which the Morning Star is the Evening Star. I'm referring to Venus, of course. But there is also a sense in which it is not. Meaning is use.

Sometimes the error is in the concept.
There is nothing more to see.

Sometimes failure is just an emotion.
There is nothing to be done.

hope mole
home pole
poem hole
elmo hope

He's a phenomenon, a whole
thing. He's been
unpersoned.

Clear concepts, valid reasons, true beliefs.

Tight emotions, great passions, just desires.

Hypocrite, lecturer! My likeness, my peer.

Proust is no way to live.

It's a beautiful day, she says;
go outside. Her perfect grammar:
first, a declarative, then
an imperative. See, then do.

This reminds me of her
body: sometimes just
a statement of the facts;
sometimes, a command.

Great minds are right twice a day.

Let the world change.

Leave by example.

It is strategy, my love,
and tactics; not strategem
                        and tantrum.