I feel that it is immensely difficult to tell the "truth". I mean what I think I want to tell is the truth, and when I write that down, it becomes somewhat of a lesser truth than what I intended it to be (the fuller truth). Does that mean I have a communication problem? That I cannot express well in a (intelligible to others) language? Did you ever feel the same? If so how did you tackle that?

Utsob Roy I don't think you have a communication problem, at least not lore than any of the great writers I know of. I always find myself bound by language.

Let's agree on some fundamentals.

The first one is, we haven't encountered 'the truth', that is, the truth that encompasses all the relative truth of a given situation.

The second one is, anything less than reality is only an anecdote, simile, or a watered-down version of reality. It includes our languages too. Whenever we express something through language, we say something intelligible, something common at the expense of many details.

This is a very difficult problem to tackle and I am not intelligent enough for sure. So, instead of telling the truth, I try to give a flavour of what that truth means to me in my writings. That is also what poetry means to me in a nutshell.

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