Do you know the reason why poetry and philosophy
It is because they have severed themselves from life.
Nowadays beauty no longer acts;
are nothing but dead-letter nowadays?
In Greece, ideas went hand-in-hand with life; so that the artist's
life was already a poetic realisation, the philosopher's life
a putting into action of his philosophy; in this way, as both philosophy
and poetry took part in life, instead of remaining unacquainted with each other,
philosophy provided food for poetry, and poetry gave expression to philosophy
- and the result was admirably persuasive.
action no longer desires to be beautiful;
and wisdom works in a sphere apart.
André Gide
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