Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates — Jacques Maritain
There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world. — Jacques Maritain
The great and admirable strength of america consists in this, that america is truly the american people. — Jacques Maritain
The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him — Jacques Maritain
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. — Jacques Maritain
Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore — Jacques Maritain
We don’t love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities. — Jacques Maritain