Nothing and Everything: The Enigmatic Sanity of Tom Bombadil and Winnie-the-Pooh

A poet does nothing every day — because he does everything.

“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.” G.K. Chesterton

The two most sane characters in literature, Tom Bombadil and Winnie-the-Pooh, are poets. They are poets to such a degree that they speak in rhyme about everything. They see poetry in everyth…