“Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.”
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
