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Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 78 Location: Western Australia
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 3:52 am Post subject: Poems / Poets / Metaphysical Poetry |
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Poems / Poets / Metaphysical Poetry
I used to write a lot of poetry (before I turned into a website slave) so I am glad Geoff has created this new section of the forum. Hopefully it will encourage us (and others) to write more poetry. Below are some of my favourite philosophers quotes on poetry, beauty, love and literature to inspire us!
Karene
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Poems-Love-Truth-Beauty.htm
No one was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
... for no matter what dull clay we seemed to be before, we are every one of us a poet when we are in love.
For we soon reap the fruits of literature in life, and prolonged indulgence in any form of literature in life leaves its mark on the moral nature of man, affecting not only the mind but physical poise and intonation. (Plato)
... the great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or those of the tender affections, love and friendship; which warm the heart, and diffuse over it similar sentiments and emotions. (David Hume) |
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