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As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound… — James Whistler
Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. — Alfred Douglas
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. — Robert Graves
Eloquence is the poetry of prose. — William C. Bryant
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear… — Victor Hugo
It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than… — Lewis Thomas
True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology… — Hugh Miller
Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like… — Hugh Miller
Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil? — Charles Lamb
Our best history is still poetry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light. — J. Patrick Lewis
To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may… — Alexander Calder
Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back. — Joan Miro
Real music will help you move towards meditation, beyond the mind needs, towards spiritual needs. Real poetry will give you a glimpse of the minds… — Rajneesh
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the… — Franz Grillparzer
Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all… — Victor Hugo
Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did — Diego Rivera
Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us: like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be cultivated. Humanism is… — Karen Armstrong
...the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It… — Robert Kennedy
Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent?… — A. E. Housman
Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.… — Rajneesh

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