Michael Oakeshott Quote

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.


Rationalism in Politics and other essays (1962) - The Voice of Poetry in the Conversation of Mankind (1959)


Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.