Why then we should drop into poetry.

Why then we should drop into poetry.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a
biography, the life of a read more

For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a
biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no
life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its
sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning read more

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.