Future Quote by Amanda Gorman

History is the new poetry.

— Thomas Carlyle

It’s history. It’s poetry.

— Anonymous

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

— Thomas Carlyle

Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.

— Kevin Young

The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will…

— Matthew Arnold

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

— Aristotle

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

— Camille Paglia

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

— A. L. Rowse

“History describes what has happened, poetry what might. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of what is…

— Aristotle

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

— Louise Bogan

Poetry is an ongoing conversation with the past and the future and the present. I'm interested in that continuity, in that way of tying…

— Jonathan W. Galassi