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• Ron Price

  26 July 2007 | 02:21

  SHAPING INNER LIFE

  The act of intuition is…an act of perception whereby the content is formed….turned into form…..a work of art is essentially in the artist’s mind…there is an intuited Gestalt…there is contemplation of the complexities, simplicities, import….meaning is synthetically construed…there is candid envisagement….there is clarification and organization of the intuition…..In the process the reader’s imagination of external reality can, in fact, be shaped…a revelation can occur to the reader’s inner life….because of some fresh formulation of their felt life, life which is at the heart of their own culture.-Susanne K. Langer, Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art Developed from Philosophy in a New Key, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1953, Chapters 20 and 21.

  Thank you, Susanne, for helping me define

  just what I am doing, trying to do, as I write

  all these poems, trying to express all this trying,

  this doing, this feeling, this thinking,

  this imagining, these memories, this intuiting,

  this defining, this clarifying, this organizing,

  this shaping, this formulating:

  to see with my own eyes

  and hear with my own ears

  and know of my own knowledge*,

  and that others may do the same.

  24 October 1998
  Revised For The Post
  “the Art of Critical Thinking”