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harmony, for we should contradict the divine Homer, and contradict ourselves” (94)6.
To decipher the undecipherable, to bring absence into presence (perhaps we have dreamed absence: maybe there are only presences without evidence) and to feel, sense, experience the “essence” of “forms” through poetry equally within, in-between and beyond in every space and non-space of our beings through the breath of silence is Plato’s struggle, Plato’s being. His is a world that inhabits the expanse of poetic beauty 3⁄4 forever dwelling in us, forever, forever Plato. We dwell in the midst of “being and not being;” just as Borges dwells in his labyrinth of “being and not being;” and Heidegger in his poetic “dwelling and not dwelling.” And yes, o yes, the Stone of Heraclea forever magnetizing our souls with perplexing inspirations and riddles that dwell across the life spans of man and yes, forever, us, breathing, racing and searching for our own heavens until not a stone is left unturned, until in a “torch race on horseback for the goddess tonight” (328 a) we find her and delight in her so that we may go on singing of the next beyond, the next poems, the next moon until everyone finds their fluvial seeds
6 Benjamin Jowett, trans. The Dialogues of Plato. Great Books of the Western World. Volume 7. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. 1952. 240
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