If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

From love's plectrum arises
the song of the string of life
Love is the light of life
love is the fire of life

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.