Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“In the last stage of civilization, Poetry, Religion, and Philosophy will be one.” — Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or,… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
