On the practice of poetry in “Ariana Reines Knows That Not All Surrender Is Bad” https://nylon.com/ariana-reines-sand-book-interview in Nylon Magazine (2019 Oct 15)
“In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 342.
Context: God is summoning you. Angels are summoning you. The myriads who have gone before are summoning you. We are surrounded by a "great cloud of witnesses." The battlements of the sky seem thronged with those who have fought the good fight of faith. They bend down from the eminence, and bid us ascend, through the one Mediator, to the same lofty dwelling.
“Let each man have the wit to go his own way.”
Unus quisque sua noverit ire via.
II, xxv, 38.
Elegies
“To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.”
Simplicity http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21390/Simplicity
From the poems written in English
“The correct answer to speech you abhor is bearing witness to what you believe.”
2010s, Who's too Weak to Live with Freedom? (2013)
“Any healthy man can go without food for two days--but not without poetry.”
“Poets are witnesses to Being before the philosophers are able to bring it into thought.”
Source: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958), Chapter Five, Christian sources, p. 105
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
1920s, The Future of an Illusion (1927)
