A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value. - Major Jackson
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. - Ralph Waldo Emerson