Poetry is man's best effort down the ages to distill some wisdom from the inarticulate depths of his soul...‏

On Frank Thompson
by Freeman Dyson

Listening to him talking, 

I learned that there is no way 

to rightly grasp these great questions 

except through poetry. 

For him, 

poetry was no mere 

intellectual amusement. 

Poetry was man's best effort 

down the ages to distill some wisdom 

from the inarticulate depths of his soul.

— Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe (1979), p. 35
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