How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

by Arnold Bennett

And it is not literature, nor is it any other art, nor is it history, nor is it any science. It is the study of one's self. Man, know thyself.

Imaginative poetry produces a far greater mental strain than novels. It produces probably the severest strain of any form of literature. It is the highest form of literature. It yields the highest form of pleasure, and teaches the highest form of wisdom. In a word, there is nothing to compare with it. I say this with sad consciousness of the fact that the majority of people do not read poetry.