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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Aristotle
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
George Eliot
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.
John Drinkwater
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
Robert Morgan
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
James Broughton
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert
Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.
Amy Clampitt
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
Richard Dawkins
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
Seamus Heaney
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Victor Hugo
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
John Keats
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.
Saul Williams
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
Lord Byron
I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
Elizabeth Edwards
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Jim Morrison
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
Eli Khamarov
