--- title: "18 History Poetry Quotes by 15 authors" description: "Browse 18 History Poetry quotes by 15 authors. Discover the best History Poetry sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e17/anonymous-1_quote_it-s-history-it-s-poetry-924341_924341.jpg" --- > [It’s history. It’s poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/it-s-history-it-s-poetry/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e17/anonymous-1_quote_it-s-history-it-s-poetry-924341_924341.jpg) > [Our best history is still poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/our-best-history-is-still-poetry/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87e/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_best_our-best-history-is-still-poetry-3044407_3044407.png) > [Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/dylan-thomas-is-now-as-much-a-case-history-as-a-chapter-in-the/) [Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b4/seamus-heaney-1711_case_dylan-thomas-is-now-as-much-a-case-histo_2029413.png) > [Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/exaggerated-history-is-poetry-and-truth-referred-to-a-new-standard/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f8/henry-david-thoreau-20_exaggerated_exaggerated-history-is-poetry-and-truth_266415.jpg) > [“Writing on architecture is not like history or poetry.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vitruvius-pollio/writing-on-architecture-is-not-like-history-or-poetry/) [Vitruvius Pollio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vitruvius-pollio/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1e/vitruvius-pollio-80014_architecture_writing-on-architecture-is-not-like-hist_1329733.jpg) > [Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/poetry-is-finer-and-more-philosophical-than-history-for-poetry/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f03/aristotle-78_history_poetry-is-finer-and-more-philosophical-t_2289967.png) > [At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-brodsky/at-certain-periods-of-history-it-is-only-poetry-that-is-capable-of/) [Joseph Brodsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-brodsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d7/joseph-brodsky-1225_capable_at-certain-periods-of-history-it-is-only_1681848.png) > [“History describes what has happened, poetry what might. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/history-describes-what-has-happened-poetry-what-might-hence-poetry-is/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a97/aristotle-78_history_history-describes-what-has-happened-poet_2151098.jpg) > [“Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-d-salinger/just-as-someday-if-you-have-something-to-offer-someone-will-learn/) [J.D. Salinger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-d-salinger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54a/j-d-salinger-560_education_just-as-someday-if-you-have-something-to_621287.png) > [in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madame-de-stael/in-italy-almost-at-every-step-history-and-poetry-add-to-the-graces-of/) [Madame de Stael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madame-de-stael/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c4/madame-de-stael-2069_add_in-italy-almost-at-every-step-history-an_112919.jpg) > [“Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-d-salinger/many-many-men-have-been-just-as-troubled-morally-and-spiritually-as-2/) [J.D. Salinger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-d-salinger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c07/j-d-salinger-560_education_many-many-men-have-been-just-as-troubled_1831322.png) > [One of the interesting things about the history of poetry in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is that people who read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/one-of-the-interesting-things-about-the-history-of-poetry-in-the-16th/) [Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2c/robert-hass-3548_18th-century_one-of-the-interesting-things-about-the_1946375.jpg) > [A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ami-mckay/a-compelling-and-important-story-of-first-word-war-scotland-a-time/) [Ami McKay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ami-mckay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee4/ami-mckay-24065_and-love_a-compelling-and-important-story-of-firs_1152190.png) > [To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-macleish/to-separate-journalism-and-poetry-therefore-history-and-poetry-to-set/) [Archibald MacLeish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-macleish/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c13/archibald-macleish-7676_acting_to-separate-journalism-and-poetry-theref_213969.jpg) > [A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably… For this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/a-poet-s-object-is-not-to-tell-what-actually-happened-but-what-could/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ad/aristotle-78_facts_a-poet-s-object-is-not-to-tell-what-actu_2924440.jpg) > [I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-williams/i-think-we-fool-ourselves-and-really-negate-a-great-deal-of-history/) [Saul Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/276/saul-williams-3868_deals_i-think-we-fool-ourselves-and-really-neg_1924290.png) > [The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/the-gods-weave-misfortunes-for-men-so-that-the-generations-to-come/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6e/jorge-luis-borges-275_art_the-gods-weave-misfortunes-for-men-so-th_3067446.jpg) > [“He read me another poem, and another one - and he explained the true history of poetry, which is a kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aravind-adiga/he-read-me-another-poem-and-another-one-and-he-explained-the-true/) [Aravind Adiga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aravind-adiga/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f0/aravind-adiga-4424_history_he-read-me-another-poem-and-another-one_872743.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history-poetry/#itemlist", "name": "History Poetry Quotes", "numberOfItems": 18, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It’s history. 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