Monday, December 30, 2024

Nothing is Really Describable

Poetry is the great language because poetry
is the art of saying what can't be said.
Every poet knows this. They're trying to describe
the indescribable, and every poet also knows
that nothing is describable. Whether you take
some sort of ineffable mystical experience
at one extreme or whether you take an ordinary
rusty nail at the other, nothing is really describable.

Alan Watts

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