Exact Quote by Gustave Flaubert

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

— Gustave Flaubert

“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.”

— Julian Barnes

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

— Gustave Flaubert

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

— Richard Dawkins

There's poetry in the real world; science is the poetry of reality.

— Anonymous

“Invention has ever imagination and poetry at its heart.”

— Algernon Blackwood

“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

A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

— Gustave Flaubert

Scientist alone is true poet.

— Allen Ginsberg