Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
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Tristia (Sorrows), I, i, 39.Ovid
The most exquisite Folly is made of Wisdom too fine spun.
Thomas (writer) Fuller
In Poetry I have a few axioms, and you will see how far I am from their centre. I think Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance Its touches of Beauty should never be halfway thereby making the reader breathless instead of content: the rise, the progress, the setting of imagery should like the Sun come natural to him shine over him and set soberly although in magnificence leaving him in the luxury of twilight but it is easier to think what Poetry should be than to write it and this leads me on to another axiom. That if Poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
John Keats
Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.
Sigmund Freud
Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.
Lionel Trilling
IT tossed and tossed,
A little brig I knew,
Oertook by blast,
It spun and spun,
And groped delirious, for morn.Emily Dickinson
Ovid
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