Poetry Archives - The Final Paradox

The Sense of Sight by Annie Swynnerton

The Rainbow Daughter of Wonder

It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from…

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dancing Fairies by August Malmström

Aesthetics/Philosophy/Prose

The Poet

What makes a poet a poet is the fact that he sees himself surrounded by…

By Friedrich Nietzsche

One with a Touch of Madness in Him

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a…

John Muir by Orlando Rouland

Poems

Ah, poems amount to so little when you write them too early in your life.…

By Rainer Maria Rilke