“Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations.”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919) American artist, writer and activist
These Are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993 (New Directions) ISBN: 0-0112-1273-4 0-0112-1252-1
9 May 1830
Table Talk (1821–1834)
“Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations.”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919) American artist, writer and activist
These Are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993 (New Directions) ISBN: 0-0112-1273-4 0-0112-1252-1
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
"Poetry" (1977)
“Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.”
George Eliot book The Mill on the Floss
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“Pure mathematics is in its way the poetry of logical ideas.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
1930s, Obituary for Emmy Noether (1935)
Context: Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. One seeks the most general ideas of operation which will bring together in simple, logical and unified form the largest possible circle of formal relationships. In this effort toward logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.
“Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.”
Adrian Mitchell (1932–2008) British writer
Poems (1964), Preface.
“Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
Aids to Reflection (1873), Aphorism 1
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1860s, A Short Autobiography (1860) <br class="br">Context: A man offered to sell, and did sell, to Abraham and another as poor as himself, an old stock of goods, upon credit. They opened as merchants; and he says that was the store. Of course they did nothing but get deeper and deeper in debt. He was appointed postmaster at New Salem — the office being too insignificant to make his politics an objection. The store winked out. The surveyor of Sangamon offered to depute to Abraham that portion of his work which was within his part of the County. He accepted, procured a compass and chain, studied Flint https://books.google.com/books?id=iakIAAAAIAAJ and Gibson https://books.google.com/books?id=SIERLtc5aAYC a little, and went at it. This procured bread, and kept soul and body together. The election of 1834 came, and he was then elected to the legislature by the highest vote cast for any candidate. Major, then in full practice of the law, was also elected. During the canvass, in a private conversation, he encouraged Abraham to study law.<!--pp.18-19
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
What Would You Substitute for the Bible as a Moral Guide? (1900)