Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.