“The ideal and the real are not mutually exclusive. A thing may be ideal and also real.”
R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943) British historian and philosopher
Source: "Some Perplexities about time: with an attempted solution" (1925), p. 150
“Poetry belongs to the real things—to the realm of the ideal which is "the only real."”
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American writer and poet 1850–1927Related quotes
Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet
Prose Papers on Poetry Macmillan & Co 1910.
Prose Papers on Poetry (1910)
“There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality”
Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
The Enemies of Reason, "Slaves to Superstition" [1.01], 13 August 2007, timecode 00:38:16ff
The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)
Variant: Science is the poetry of reality.
Context: The word 'mundane' has come to mean boring and dull, and it really shouldn't. It should mean the opposite because it comes from the latin 'mundus', meaning the world, and the world is anything but dull; the world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
Paul Klee (1879–1940) German Swiss painter
Quote of Klee (Munich, c. 1910); as cited by Gualtieri Di San Lazzaro, Klee, Praeger, New York, 1957, p. 16
Klee was married, had a young son then and did the housework, living in an suburb of Munich
1903 - 1910
“There are ideal series of events which run parallel with the real ones. They rarely coincide.”
Novalis (1772–1801) German poet and writer
As quoted in "The Mystery Of Marie Rogêt" (1842) by Edgar Allan Poe, adapted from Fragments from German Prose Writers (1841) by Sarah Austin
Context: There are ideal series of events which run parallel with the real ones. They rarely coincide. Men and circumstances generally modify the ideal train of events, so that it seems imperfect, and its consequences are equally imperfect. Thus with the Reformation; instead of Protestantism came Lutheranism.
Harold Monro (1879–1932) British poet
T. S. Eliot, in Alida Monro (ed.) The Collected Poems of Harold Monro (London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1933) p. xiv.
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“Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet