True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.


Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel; Tr., with an Introduction and Notes (ed. 1893)

Henri-Frédéric Amiel Quotes

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain...

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain...

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain...

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain...