Flights of Faith

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Imagination / Reason

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess players do. …To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything is a strain. The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch himself in. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

GK Chesterton

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