Blanchot on poetry

[Gord Barentsen]

"Philosophy, which puts everything into question, is tripped up by poetry, which is the question that eludes it." - Maurice Blanchot

[stimmung79]

Beautiful!  Poetry does nothing but ask questions, even when its making statements or pretending to answer questions. 

[Gord Barentsen]

Or maybe questions are answers themselves simply by virtue of pointing to their sheer existence?  And it's us who project on to poetry the questions, quests and quotients which concern us at the present moment?

[Graham Barnett]

But are there examples where philosophy is poetry?  Or poetry is philosophical?

[Gord Barentsen]

On 7/21/2018 at 9:53 AM, Graham Barnett said:

But are there examples where philosophy is poetry?  Or poetry is philosophical?

Well I guess it depends on how you define them.  For someone like Schelling (certainly Schelling from 1809 on) they were at least somewhat (if not completely?) synonymous.

[NotWithoutMyOntic]

On 7/21/2018 at 9:53 AM, Graham Barnett said:

But are there examples where philosophy is poetry?  Or poetry is philosophical?

Im thinking of Wordsworth's Prelude.  He said it was "the growth of a poet's mind.," so....