Today's Five Quotes

1. Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. --T.S.Eliot
2. The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infitnity of things which surpass it. --Blaine Pascal
3. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. --Alfred North Whitehead
4. Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad. --Anonymous
5. Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness...were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find those words. --Rainer Maria Rilke

1. T.S. Eliot was a big believer is the magicalness of poets. I am not so sure of that part, but I wholeheartedly agree with this quote still - words done well are like music, and you can feel it seperate from their literal meaning.
2. One of the greatest quotes of all time for me, and it means even more that it comes from such a scientist as Pascal. We are not infallible, even Katie. There are wonders.
3. Another quote about the properties of great minds. I'm skeptical of these, mostly because I am certain the authors included themselves in that number.
4. Eh, self-congrtulatory greeting card sentiment. If I were to write it now, I'd say something like "Those who hear not the music don't look up from their phones long enough to notice any dancing. Don't worry about it."
5. Rilke was an incredible poet. Love him, and this quote.