Molly’s Song
(and
Other Poems)
Lyrical ballads
based on the melodies of
Wu Jun-Lin (“Wu Bai”)
- for Rebecca -
“I do not rank real art among the ideologies…Art does not replace knowledge (in the modern sense: scientific knowledge), but what it gives us does nevertheless maintain a certain specific relationship with knowledge. This relationship is not one of identity but one of difference…The real difference between art and science lies in the specific form in which they give us the same object in quite different ways: art in the form of “seeing” and “perceiving” or “feeling,” science in the form of knowledge (in the strict sense, by concepts).”
-- Louis Althusser, “A Letter On Art”
“The knowledge both of the Poet and the Man of Science is pleasure…Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge.”
-- Wordsworth, “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”
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