“An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.”
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Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
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.
