I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnuts — just as I would have if I had made more close friends.

Richard Rorty

Mots clés poetry verse epicurus heidegger algernon-charles-swinburne algernon-swinburne landor martin-heidegger walter-landor walter-savage-landor

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