Quote by Frederick William Robertson

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but

Summary

This quote suggests that the purpose of poetry is not to convey factual information or promote logical thinking, but rather to evoke genuine emotions and feelings within the reader. It implies that the true essence and value of poetry lies in its ability to connect with individuals on an emotional level, allowing them to experience and embrace a range of sentiments, whether joy, sadness, love, or any other deep emotions. In essence, poetry prioritizes the authenticity and intensity of emotions over the precision of thoughts.

Topics

By Frederick William Robertson

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

If there is a symbol of our age, perhaps it is something tha

If there is a symbol of our age, perhaps it is something that every factory worker does each day of their working lives -- I refer to clocking in. (Very soon probably they won't even have to do that; the clock will itself observe them by radar.) In the ancient world when a person entered a temple, each made a votive offering to a god or a goddess at the door. As twentieth century people file into their shrines, they obediently pay their due to the god that regulates their lives -- the clock. It is the clock that measures us, that silent witness that keeps our going in and our coming out and relentlessly records our every movement. That is where all our organization and machinery to free us from time, to save us time, has brought us. Never before have we had such control over things, and never before have we been so enslaved by them. And of nothing is this more true than of time.

Evelyn Underhill, The Mastery of

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wil

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

Wendell Phillips

Newton Pulsifer had never...as far as he knew, ever believed

Newton Pulsifer had never...as far as he knew, ever believed in anything. It had been embarrassing, because he quite wanted to believe in something, since he recognized that belief was the lifebelt that got most people through the choppy waters of Life. He'd have liked to believe in a supreme God, although he'd have preferred a half-hour's chat with Him before committing himself, to clear up one or two points. He'd sat in all sorts of churches, waiting for that single flash of blue light, and it hadn't come. And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard, self-satisfied strength of belief even for that. And every single political party had seemed to him equally dishonest. ....Then he'd tried believing in the Universe, which seemed sound enough until he'd innocently started reading new books with words like Chaos and Time and Quantum in the titles. He'd found that even the people whose job of work was, so to speak, the Universe, didn't really believe in it and were actually quite proud of not knowing what it really was or even if it could theoretically exist.To Newt's straightforward mind this was intolerable.

Religion Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman Good Omens

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser tha

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.

William Shakespeare

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that v

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, ge

I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.

Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of th

Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lewis H. Lapham

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

William Shakespeare

Poverty Content

Only those live who do good.

Only those live who do good.

I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people f

I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.