If you can't say something well....

“The sky was red.”

“The lips of every maiden wept with jealousy for the crimson stain smeared across the clouds that night.”

To a logician, these two sentences are identical. This alone should testify to the deep imbecility of that discipline.

You see, logic cares only about truth and falsity. But in human experience, the inescapable truth about language is that truth is not the issue. Simply put, men respond to beauty, not merely to truth. This is because the distance between a falsehood and a mere truth is meaningless compared with the gulf between a truth and an eloquence.

Yet when we make our proclamations, we often think we have done enough to merely say what is true, thus satisfying the logicians. But only a logician could be stupid enough to believe that poetry can be reduced to propositions…or to believe that propositions alone have ever changed the course of history…or even a man’s heart.