When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
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The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.
An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.
In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.
I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.
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