Back -- longer post tomorrow. Sleep now.

[darksunday]

So, my dearest father emails me a quote:
"In science you want to say something nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say something that everybody knows already in words that nobody can understand."
- Paul Dirac

I, livid, replied with:
What bullshit.

He replies:
Ah! do I detect the true utterance

Comments

[tinycorvid]

I wish my dad was like that :P

[darksunday]

He isn't usually. Usually the extent of his humour is concerned with poo.

[continental]

::applause::

[ceciley]

but...that's true. :P.

[darksunday]

The opposite tends to be true for me. =)

[antitype]

Well, there certainly seems to be some truth to that. I suppose it depends on the poet's talent. If some sort of meaning or feeling can be conveyed (or if the poem "is" something rather than being about something, the way a haiku is supposed to be) without the poem being muddled by language or structure, I think that is indicative of real talent.

[douphant_z0r]

Your father reminds me of mine.