Stillness in the midst of chaos

Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

You, you joys and your sorrows,
you memories and ambitions, you sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior.
of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.

wie der helle Bergkristall,
fremder sind, als Kohle dem Diamenten !

Mathe, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty
-- a beauty cold and austere, like that sculpture.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature !

Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers & c., if they could. they have tried their talents at one or at the other, and have failed, therefore they turn critics.

if there is a room for poets in this world
Their sole work is to represene the age
Their age, not Charlesmagne's