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.
cf. Gabriel Marcels distinction between a 'problem' and a 'mystery'
to paraphrase badly: A problem is objective, and can be shared, a mystery is when the question is inextricably subjective - it cannot be abstracted from the oberver.
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"Words can bridge so much
yet cannot easily reach into the deep dark place
that we are from.
Only silence and music
can delve into the abyss
and return unscathed.
again, again and again.
It is the intention itself that makes the magical leap
across the space
where words must
fall and fail."
to paraphrase badly: A problem is objective, and can be shared, a mystery is when the question is inextricably subjective - it cannot be abstracted from the oberver.