Famous Quotes About poetry

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.