The Limits of Language

"The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for."

"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination."

Wittgenstein's words are valid for poets whose language defines their style and poetic

voice. The connotative qualities of language are imaginative and poetic. Connotation

and metaphor distinguish a poem from a prose piece. Imagination opens up a poem

to a limitless space where the reader can enter and play and create as he wishes within

the limits of the poet's words. What a paradox that leads to thought and creation!