“Poetry, we might say, is concerned with the truth of what is, not with what is truth.”
Herbert Read (1893–1968) English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art
What is a Poem - Endword - Selected Poems (1926)
“Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling, and what is the use of truth!”
Source: The Life of Poetry (1949), Chapter One : The Fear of Poetry
Context: Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling, and what is the use of truth!
How do we use feeling?
How do we use truth! However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
If we use the resources we now have, we and the world itself may move in one fullness. Moment to moment, we can grow, if we can bring ourselves to meet the moment with our lives.
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