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Read & copy the quotation
“You cannot find what the poets find in the woods until you take the poet's heart to the woods.”
- Source
- Pepacton
- Date
- 1881
Meaning of “You cannot find what the poets find in…”
Perception depends partly on the observer: poetic meaning in nature emerges when imagination and feeling participate alongside literal observation.
Where does it come from?
Pepacton, discussion of poetic interpretation of nature. Burroughs contrasts objective natural-history observation with the poet’s subjective idealization, using Shelley and Keats as examples.
