Writing is embodiment. Reading is contact. In the preface to Obra poetica, Jorge Luis Borges writes: \u2019The taste of the apple (states Berkeley) lies in the contact of the fruit with the palate, not in the fruit itself; in a similar way (I would say) poetry lies in the meeting of the poem and reader, not in the lines of symbols printed on the pages of a book. What is essential is the aesthetic act, the thrill, the almost physical emotion that comes with each reading.\u2019 Borges continues on to suggest that poetry can work its magic by fulfilling our profound need to \u201crecover a past or prefigure a future.\u201d Poetry depends on the mutuality of writer and reader. The symbols on the page alone are insufficient. Borges was a fabulist and in the foreword to his first book of poems he went even further to suggest that poetry goes beyond mutuality, beyond identification, into identity itself: \u2019If in the following pages there is some successful verse or other, may the reader forgive me the audacity of having written it before him. We are all one; our inconsequential minds are much alike, and circumstances so influence us that it is something of an accident that you are the reader and I the writer\u2014the unsure, ardent writer\u2014of my verses.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
stem: edward hirsch Writing is embodiment. Reading is contact. In the preface to Obra poetica, Jorge Luis Borges writes: \u2019The taste of the apple (states Berkeley) lies in the contact of the fruit with the palate, not in the fruit itself; in a similar way (I would say) poetry lies in the meeting of the poem and reader,Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2007,3847,974],"tags":[3828,3829,3830,173,2044],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63827"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63964,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63827\/revisions\/63964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
perspectief: A poetry primer for the uninitiated
titel: it is something of an accident that you are the reader and I the writer
bron: how to read a poem (2006, 2013)
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