Zitat des Tages über Poetisch / Poetical:
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.
It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.
In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that there are systems of knowledge and grand poetical schemata derived from the mobile life that it would be foolish to disregard or underrate. And mad to destroy.