Book Quote by Denise Levertov

It seems like every ten years there's a book that says that poetry used to be popular, and now it's not, but we really…

— Robert Hass

History is still in large measure poetry to me.

— Jacob Burckhardt

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

The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.

— Barbara Tuchman

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

“History describes what has happened, poetry what might. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of what is…

— Aristotle

A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry…

— Aristotle

Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its…

— Babette Deutsch

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

— Aristotle

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

— Aristotle

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

— Andrew Motion