Robert Graves Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: July 24, 1895 - December 7, 1985
Birthday: July 24
Death: December 7
The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.
source: Robert Graves, Patrick J. Quinn (2000). “Some speculations on literature, history, and religion”, Carcanet Press Ltd.
topic: Simple, Emotional, Differences, Formation, Unemotional, Time Poetry
