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# Notes on poetry | ||
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We can think of the world as being people and culture, communities crossing over. | ||
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We can think of the world as market forces. | ||
# The unimportance of being right | ||
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We can think of the world as being people and culture, communities crossing over.\ | ||
We can think of the world as market forces.\ | ||
We can think of the world as atoms and molecules and quarks and laws and the what-not of whatever it is we all are. | ||
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A person is a collection of needs and wants, motivations and habits. | ||
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A person is a machine made of veins and nerves and flesh and bones. | ||
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A person is a sum of their output to the world, the cultural mark they leave, the difference they make or not. | ||
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A person is a collection of needs and wants, motivations and habits.\ | ||
A person is a machine made of veins and nerves and flesh and bones.\ | ||
A person is a sum of their output to the world, the cultural mark they leave, the difference they make or not.\ | ||
A person is a soul to be saved, a sacrifice to be made. | ||
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A poem is a piece of art. | ||
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A poem is a list of letters that make up sounds. | ||
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A poem is a grammatical structure. | ||
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A poem is a pipe. [^pipe] | ||
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A poem is a piece of art.\ | ||
A poem is a list of letters that make up sounds.\ | ||
A poem is a grammatical structure.\ | ||
A poem is a pipe. [^pipe]\ | ||
A poem is a message that may or may not run as intended, but we think it's worth transmitting either way. | ||
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So here we are. | ||
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[^pipe]: [Notes sur la poesie](https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k58451673/f59.item.r=pipe) |