Showing posts with label wildness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wildness. Show all posts

wild flower

When we talk of wild poetry, we sometimes forget the parallel of wild flowers. They exist to show that a thing may be more modest and delicate for being wild.

—G. K. Chesterton, Chaucer (1932), Collected Works Vol. XVIII

wild state

Poetry is something like religion in a wild state.
—Novalis