It’s based on Agamben’s formulation of the difference between poetry, which is concerned with ‘direct experience’ and philosophy (crudely, science etc) which is concerned with the explanation of direct experience.
Poetry on the other hand is all about the direct experience of language but in so doing founders upon silence (a perfect experience of language is unspeakable).
Poetry and philosophy incorporate different forms of silence - the first through silence as a reaction to direct experience and the second through always being at a distance from direct experience.
Only silence and music can delve into the abyss and return unscathed. However, poetry can also sklent at that deeper reality, with its use of pregnant possibilities, uncertainties and seeming contradictions. Paradoxically, poetry speaks the unspeakable.
The classic example here is huh death. Poetry can grapple with the experience of (near) death but in so doing cannot write about it. Science can explain all day long about death but can never convey the experience of it.
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