Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.
Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
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