From what the moderns want we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did what poetry must be.
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains at the huge waves of the sea at the long courses of the rivers at the vast compass of the ocean at the circular motions of the stars and they pass by themselves without wondering.
