Related quotes
- Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
- How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
- In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.
- What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.