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21 " No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression. "
― James Connolly , Songs of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook
22 " What kind of dark, twisted mind preys on young women? I think it was Poe that said the death of a beautiful woman is the most poetical thing in the universe, and if that was true… I was John Milton. "
― Bruce Crown , Forlorn Passions
23 " It is a great thing, indeed, to make a proper use of the poetical forms, as also of compounds and strange words. But the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars. "
― Aristotle , The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle
24 " I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence? "
25 " The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. "
26 " The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened. "
27 " I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that there are systems of knowledge and grand poetical schemata derived from the mobile life that it would be foolish to disregard or underrate. And mad to destroy. "
