Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years.
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
The soul is healed by being with children.
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
Never cut what you can untie.
Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.