[New-Poetry] Wittgenstein

[Anny Ballardini]

One of my favorite poems.
  From: JforJames at aol.com 
  Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 11:09 PM
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  Prayer

  Whatever happens.  Whatever
  what is is is what
  I want.  Only that.  But that.

  --Galway Kinnell
  A New Selected Poems, Mariner Books, 2001


  a message dated 4/21/2007 4:46:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, anny.ballardini at tin.it writes:
    501. “The purpose of language is to express thoughts.” – So presumably the purpose of every sentence is to express a thought. Then what thought is expressed, for example, by the sentence “It’s raining”?-



    Ludwig Wittgenstein 
    Philosophical Investigations
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