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An account, Korzybski old chap, of this thing of ours.

Publication: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
Publication Date: 01-APR-08 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: An account, Korzybski old chap, of this thing of ours.(POETRY RING)

Article Excerpt
WENDELL JOHNSON SAID that "the better part of science is the language of science," and like science, poetry has a language all its own. We therefore might consider the corresponding claim, that the better part of poetry is the language of poetry. Certainly, following the lead of the brilliant philosopher of symbolic form, Susanne K. Langer, we can understand that the language of poetry can be used to express and represent thoughts, feelings, and perceptions that the language of science cannot. We can understand as well that the language of...

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