Believe Quote by Cornel West

“Philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he…

— Robert Graves

Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand that we…

— Randall Jarrell

I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no…

— William Carlos Williams

“Poetry is the most potent form of philosophy.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.

— Jennifer Grotz

I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn.

— Edward Hirsch

Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists.

— Robert Hass

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating…

— Harold Bloom

Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.

— Henry David Thoreau