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"Begone, J. Evans Pritchard, Ph. D!"
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
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This is exactly what I feel about poetry. It is feeling; it is emotion; as any other forms of art, it is a birth. We like poetry because the human race (I love "race" instead than saying "being" or "humanity" or "humankind". In "race" there's a sense of animality we need in order to create) is filled with passion. Passion is one of the most untagible thing humankind may have, but it drives and steers our flash like an ox that pulls a plow. It is all there, our humanity. This is why I scorne when people rationalize things too much. Logic may kill passions, may dry humanity out. Of courses there may be limits we cannot cross, so we need to be "logical", and this is for a "quite acceptance of our limitations", but even within those limits we shouldn't forget that it is better, sometimes, to follow our instincts than our brain.
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