“Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.”
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
