
Poetry is the wound of the unseen - the last dialogue by Muhammad Ali Shams al-Din
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I said in defining poetry that it is "one of the oldest wounds of the unseen." Why? Simply and in explanation, Ibn Manzur and Al-Fayrouzabadi state that "kalam" means "wound." So the word is wound, and what does wound mean? The wound reveals, opens the solid flesh, opens the closed body, to look inside it, and extract its blood, that is, its truth. This is how poetry relates to all things, from th...
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I said in defining poetry that it is "one of the oldest wounds of the unseen." Why? Simply and in explanation, Ibn Manzur and Al-Fayrouzabadi state that "kalam" means "wound." So the word is wound, and what does wound mean? The wound reveals, opens the solid flesh, opens the closed body, to look inside it, and extract its blood, that is, its truth. This is how poetry relates to all things, from th...
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