In the poem, the speaker says kisses are better than
wisdom and her eyelids’ flutter is better than the “best gesture" of his brain. Kisses
and the flutter are expressions of emotion. They are not filtered by logic, wisdom or
the formulaic structure of syntax, paragraphs and intellectualizing. The speaker is
saying that emotional gestures are more spontaneous and therefore more sincere than a
structured thought. He makes an analogy between the constraints of syntax and grammar on
poetry with the constraints of wisdom on emotion. For emotion and/or poetry to be free
and experienced to fullest, they must be free of these constraints, or as the speaker
says:
who pays attention
to
the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss
you:
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