Freedom of expression in Poetry.

[billy]

What's pretentious is thinking that everything you write comes from your conscious mind. Call it being vs Being, the self vs the Self, egoism vs God conscious, or inspiration vs the mundane, I don't really care, but if you have read any philosophy from the last 3000 years or so, that is primarily what has been debated (except for Kant of course, who killed the muse, and then the modernist who killed it again, and then the post modernist who killed everything else because they don't want anyone to be better than anyone else). And no, I don't go into a trance and channel the muse. I am very conscious of when and what I am writing, but it is also true that I am not purposefully thinking up stuff to write about like an argument paper.

Like I said many times before you can call it what you want, but little pee-brains can only take pot shots at the word "muse" (humor excluded). If it was good enough for the Greeks, it's good enough for me (and should be for Billy since he likes taking it up the ass so much). Blake called it the "Imagination" a wellspring much larger than ourselves. But I understand. If you have no soul, the idea of muse would seem very foreign and other-worldly...like science fiction.

Dale

pray who said every thing we write comes from the conscious mind? imagination is something i thrive on, i don't however see it as my or a muse. muse is used as form of currency on poetry sites. the more you use, have. or lose it, the wealthier you are as a poet. personally i see the word used, banded about the more to show one's a poet than as a symbol for imagination or anything else. sadly most of those who use it in a such ubiquitous ways are those who seem to have the least amount of whatever the muse is. so yes i find it and the use of it "the muse" poet speak for " look how clever i am, was, should be, or must be. one may as well say i have no imagination. hang i can't continue, my muse has just fucked off for a minute......okay it's back. on one hand the academe are all shits and on the other my muse say i must write thus...

i think i would rather take a stiff one up the arse than talk such rubbish. give me a minute while i rinse out the ring.