“Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.”
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In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.