Poetry is the virtue of the language, calling the ancient discourse of human with human to a higher account while calling all humans to a higher angel of discourse itself - joining the subtle with the metaphysical; the modest with the exalted - rejecting the marketplace of indeterminate and expansive meaning and embracing the narrow, clear and precise meaning of that which is itself indeterminate and yet completely vital and determining. Poetry calls us to the artfulness of being. Poetry rejects the pace of modernity and post-modernity and post-post-modernity (the words themselves refer to the absurdity with which we have disturbed language) and the habituated frontal-lobe thinking without reflective morality or humanity.
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