Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“History describes what has happened, poetry what might. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about the history of poetry in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is that people who read… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was… — Ami McKay Copy Share Image
To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably… For this… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“He read me another poem, and another one - and he explained the true history of poetry, which is a kind of… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
