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It is a violence from within that protects us from a violence without. It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.
Now that could be profound..
or it could be mock profound – claptrap.
Depends on what you mean by the violence within.
So what do you mean by the violence within?
You tell me?
Why? I wasn’t pretending to be profound by expressing such a phrase.
Sounds like you were being mock profound.
Ah well..the first post sounded good as long as you don’t think about it.
Never mind. Keep trying.
It says more about how you interpret it, than what it may or may not mean.
It may mean something quite different to every reader, it stirred something in you, what does it mean to you?
It stirred curiosity at what you meant.
It means nothing to me unless you explain what you meant by inner violence.
Just Google Wallace Stevens.
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Poetry and music speaks for itself, it doesn’t need explaining.
All I can do is the same as you, interpret it.
Wallace Stevens is one of my favourite poets…
but I was answering St Alfie.
Is he quoting Stevens? Does he mean the same thing as Stevens’s view?
In which case – why not say so?
Do you think he’s trying to impress us??
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