Burckhardt (quoted by Bernstein, 45): poetry's goal is to drive "a wedge / between words and their meanings, lessen as much as possible their designatory force and thereby / inhibit our all too ready flight from them to / things they point to"
> from Charles Bernstein's A Poetics (1992)
> tagged with #language, #poetics, #poetry, #meaning
> created Feb 5, 2025 at 10:25:51 AM
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