Words

[David Morris]

Brilliant! Thanks.

But a dog's bark is nearly also so poetic.  Lots of meaning and emotion in
a bark. No muse though, because no words.

Do metaphors define our difference?  Is poetry, metaphor, our leap?

David Morris


On Friday, June 29, 2012, Don Higgins wrote:

> Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word. . . . The
> poets made all the words, and therefore language is the archives of
> history, and, if we must say it, a sort of tomb of the muses. For, though
> the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a
> stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it
> symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The
> etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
> Language is fossil poetry.
>
> Emerson, "The Poet"
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