A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Wisdom begins at the end.
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem.
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.