Famous quotes containing the words poetic and/or language:
“Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.”
—Giambattista Vico (1688–1744)
“Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)