“If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.” IfsMenMayChildrenMadeSoulDreamLyingTermAnimalLevelsMagicSeriousCapableLaughterOriginalsStatementsDefinedRegionsEcstasyWakingPrimitiveSavagesSeriousnessCloaksEnchantmentSeersWaking Life Author:Johan Huizinga
“It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short?” MenLifePersonsMadeIdeasDifferentTogetherLife IsGamesBlackHoursLaughingWonderfulFiguresConversationLaughterRedSpeciesComplainingPassingPassingsCardsSpotsPhrasesPacksLife Is ShortShort LifeDividingShuffling Author:Joseph Addison