Francis Thompson on what poetry is

    Francis Thompson’s description of poetry (applies also to painting) gets us further forward:

    O world invisible, we view thee,
    O world intangible, we touch thee.
    O world unknowable, we know thee,
    Inapprehensible, we clutch thee!

    (Quoted from page 135 of The Forms of Things Unknown, by Herbert Read. Horizon Press, 1960.)
    For a brief biography of Francis Thompson, click here. For images of or relating to Francis Thompson, click here.
    For a brief biography of Herbert Read, click here. For images of or relating to Herbert Read, click here.