The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that…

A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his…

— Mark Forsyth

It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered,…

— James Payn

“Were I to choose an auspicious image for the new millennium, I would choose that one: the sudden agile leap of the poet-philosopher who…

— Anonymous

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Rose was patently a degenerate. Nature, in scheduling his characteristics, had pruned all superlatives. The rude armour of the flesh, under which the spiritual,…

— Bernard Capes

“Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action. Destruction awaits…

— Emil Cioran

“A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

“The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries…

— G.K. Chesterton

“A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his…

— Mark Forsyth

“… in these new days and in these new pages a philosophical tradition of the spontaneity of speculation kind has been rekindled on the…

— Richard Mc Sweeney

In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“English teaching at school is, unfortunately, obsessed with what a poet thought, as though that were of any interest to anyone. Rather than being…

— Mark Forsyth

I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if…

— James Laughlin

There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in the particular.…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Though science makes no use for poetry, poetry is enriched by science. Poetry “takes up” the scientific vision and re-expresses its truths, but always…

— L.P. Jacks