Bahaichap Posted September 19, 2004 Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 SHAPING INNER LIFE The act of intuition is...an act of perception whereby the content is formed....turned into form.....a work of art is essentially in the artist’s mind...there is an intuited Gestalt...there is contemplation of the complexities, simplicities, import....meaning is synthetically construed...there is candid envisagement....there is clarification and organization of the intuition.....In the process the reader’s imagination of external reality can, in fact, be shaped...a revelation can occur to the reader’s inner life....because of some fresh formulation of their felt life, life which is at the heart of their own culture. -Susanne K. Langer, Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art Developed from Philosophy in a New Key, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1953, Chapters 20 and 21. Thank you, Susanne, for helping me definejust what I am doing, trying to do, as I write all these poems, trying to express all this trying,this doing, this feeling, this thinking, this imagining, this memory, this intuiting,this defining, this clarifying, this organizing,this shaping, this formulating: to see with my own eyeshear with my own ears know of my own knowledge<SUP>1</SUP>, so that others may do the same.<SUP>1</SUP> Baha'u'llah, Hidden Words. Ron PriceNovember 2001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tormod Posted September 19, 2004 Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 Hi Bahaichap - welcome! Is there a question or topic for discussion somewhere in your post, or did you just want to post the poem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freethinker Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 I think the "Baha'u'llah" gives the answer. But then I will get yelled at for having seen it and made the connection. It's always me isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tormod Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 Me (yelling at FT): It's always you, isn't it!!! The rest of us just love it when Hypography is used as a soapbox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freethinker Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 Pulpit rather than soapbox? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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