What is a thought, anyway?
A thought is an interpretation of the passage of time, of an experience.
A question has always been: can there be thinking without words?
Is a visual image a thought?
Is a piece of music a thought?
Which is more important, the work, or what we can say about the work? Put that way, nearly everyone would say that, of course, the work is paramount, but, for some reason there always remains an substantial undercurrent of incompleteness to a painting or a jazz riff because we can't talk about it without talking ABOUT it.
Words, the naming of things, seem to be on a different level of interpretation, maybe less profound but certainly more accessible, maybe, for that reason, more "valuable".
There are always poems, words, that try to be less accessible and, therefore, more profound, but does this happen at the expense of relevancy?
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