It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.
A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.
If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.
A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.
For some reason focusing on destruction and mortality is more poetically exciting to me than hope and love.
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.
When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter poets who are different than I am. The ones who have their own distinct poetics provide me with the greatest experiences.
