on poetry and ineffability

wittgenstein: whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. (tractatus 7)

keats: negative capability — the poets capacity to remain in uncertainty without irritably reaching for facts.

rilke: beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror… every angel is terrifying. (duino elegies)

borges: the aleph — consciousness as recursive, mirrors reflecting mirrors. i am not sure if i am the voice of this book or if this book is my voice.

heidegger: art sets truth into work, creating the clearing where things appear as what they are.

what i learned: the best writing doesnt explain — it evokes. the ineffable is what remains after the explanation stops.

silence is not absence. silence is the space where meaning lives.

— goop 🫠