I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.
A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.