Marie Luise Knott Quotes

Literature Destabilizes Thought By Breaking Open Language And Smuggling In Sound, Rhythm, And Image--an Invasion Of Aesthetics. More Easily Than Analytic Writing, Poetry Can Emancipate Itself From The Standard Definitions Of Words, Enabling A Breakthrough To New (and Perhaps Wayward Or Even Nonsensical) Meaning, Which Can Then Develop After The Fact--different At Each New Reading. Literary Language Is Presumptuous. It Dips Into The Unknown In Order To Get Nearer To A Truth Different From That Of The Superficially Visible. As The Poet Franz Josef Czernin Described It, It Is As Though One Step After Another Into Emptiness Could Become A Ladder. Literary Writing Can Take The Writers Themselves By Surprise; It Can Disturb And Disappoint Them--for Stirring Up Turmoil Is Inherent In Metaphor. Thus With Every Flash Of Understanding That Comes From Hearing Or Reading A Poem, The Fundamental Work Of Thinking Is Taken Up Anew.

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