Unpoetical Quotes

7 quotes by 6 authors

• Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are… — Plato
• If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world. — Reginald Horace Blyth
• At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. — Oscar Wilde
• A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body. — John Keats
• The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are… — Oscar Wilde

Who Wrote These Unpoetical Quotes

6 authors contributed a total of 7 Unpoetical Quotes as follows:

• 2 Unpoetical Quotes by Oscar Wilde
• 1 Unpoetical Quote by Reginald Horace Blyth
• 1 Unpoetical Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Unpoetical Quote by Plato
• 1 Unpoetical Quote by John Keats
• 1 Unpoetical Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe