Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason see…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.
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Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.

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