“My saying what silence names”

he mystical poetic language that embraces life in openness to otherness.

Abstract

Life permeates everything, bursts forth, overflows, for "Each life has the dimension of its acceptance, of openness to what is coming and in what, by accepting, becomes life" (Mujica, El saber del no-saberse, 21). Poetic language, the realm of metaphor, welcomes life, names it without possessing it, perceives its inexhaustibility, and its expression inaugurates new meanings, generating more life, in a generous openness to the other and to mystery. The reflection on "the living metaphor" bequeathed by Paul Ricoeur is the fertile ground that invites us to dialogue with the poetic word that speaks life from and toward new horizons. Hugo Mujica, the poet-philosopher, is the "word" that moves us, calls us, and whom we invite to this meeting. His poetics, rooted in philosophers and mystics, leads us to the openness of the text, refiguring its word and making fruitful the dialogue that connects us to others, since the word that hosts us is a reflection of our hosting of the other and of the mystery that opens its way. La palabra poética nos puede guiar, abrir, remitir a otro decir, el del místico que encuentra en la poesía y en la metáfora la expresión paradójica de lo indecible. Vida, encuentro, desierto, silencio, luz y oscuridad, fuente, tiempo y eternidad… voces que nos permiten sumergirnos en las aguas profundas de la belleza desnuda, despojada, que desborda y atrae.