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“It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real lasting felt knowledge, is going mostly unnoticed among our scholars. The body of knowledge locked into and releasable from poetry can replace practically any university in the Republic. First things first, then: the primal importance of a poem is what it can add to the individual mind.Poetry is the voice of a poet at its birth, and the voice of a people in its ultimate fulfillment as a successful and useful work of art.”

“A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.”

People Firsts Mean Important Young Order Education Knowing First Things First

Book:In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World

Source: In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World

“If you seek eternity and light and luminosity, seek humility first ... first things first.”

Ifs Firsts Light Humility Buddhism Eternity First Things First

Author:Frederick Lenz