Poetry Quote by David Whyte Download Open image “I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.” — David Whyte ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Precise Precision Science Way World
Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“I believe that this example demonstrates how great science and great poetry are both visionary, and may even arrive at the same intuitions. Our… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
What I see in science is a lot of imagination referring to things that are fundamental to what we are. Our cells, our history,… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Poetry or science, what matters is saying it how you see it. Saying precisely what and how you saw, and no more. In science,… — Ruth Padel Copy Share Image
Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“Science has its place in man’s search for understanding, but science and the imagination have tended to bifurcate in the modern world; only the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before.… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill? — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with, it is the mother of the thing you fear. The very thing… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but the child… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“Work, like marriage, is a place you can lose yourself more easily perhaps than finding yourself. It is a place full of powerful undercurrents,… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“...wanting soul life without the dark, warming intelligence of personal doubt is like expecting an egg without the brooding heat of the mother hen.” — David Whyte Copy Share Image
It's my contention that there is no sincere path a human being can take without breaking his or her heart...so it can be a… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“FINISTERRE The road in the end taking the path the sun had taken, into the western sea, and the moon rising behind you as… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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