Historian Quote by Barbara Tuchman Download Open image “The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.” — Barbara Tuchman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Historian History People Poet Poetry
I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
I'm not a historian. I know historians. I've worked with them. They have a really powerful way of looking at the world, and I… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
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 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
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it. — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets,… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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