Poetry Quote by Herbert Spencer

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

— Aime Cesaire

I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn If…

— Benjamin Franklin

... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad, indeed, is…

— Herbert Spencer

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

— Henry Beston

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets…

— Socrates

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many…

— Plato

Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.

— Marianne Moore

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

Poetry teaches us how to live in a world in which none of us belongs.

— Dennis Nurkse

It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.

— Richard Eberhart

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

— Diane Wakoski