Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram remain inaccessible to this state of mind. — Marshall McLuhan Share this quote Post on X Facebook Download image Copy quote Copy link Share… Another quote → Topics ArtPoetry
Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration. Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts. Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
All words, in every language, are metaphors. Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)
As Innis got more insight he abandoned any mere point of view in his presentation of knowledge. The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962)
There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)
Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'. George Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)
I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds. Michael Faraday