Leo Strauss on Esoteric Writing?
"There are reasons in nature why the obscure idea, when properly conveyed, should be more affecting than the clear: It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration, and chiefly excites our passions. Whereas knowledge and acquaintance make the most striking causes affect but little."-Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Investigation into the Sublime and the Beautiful
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"a poem" - a form made of signifiers, linguistic signs - is a thing because it cannot be dissolved, into meanings"- Byung-Chul Han, "Non-Things"
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“We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means... I prefer to express myself metaphorically. Let me stress: metaphorically, not symbolically. A symbol contains within itself a definite meaning, certain intellectual formula, while metaphor is an image. An image possessing the same distinguishing features as the world it represents. An image — as opposed to a symbol — is indefinite in meaning. One cannot speak of the infinite world by applying tools that are definite and finite. We can analyse the formula that constitutes a symbol, while metaphor is a being-within-itself, it’s a monomial. It falls apart at any attempt of touching it."
- Andrei Tarkovsky
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