History Quote by Jacob Burckhardt Download Open image “History is still in large measure poetry to me.” — Jacob Burckhardt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Inspirational Love Poetry Stills
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 Copy Share Image
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may be considered the result of a contract, etc. People begin to dispute the sacred right of the individual ruler or authority without being aware that at the same time they are playing into the hands… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now. — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another. — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that the future will honour… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much. — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future. — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the… — Angela Merkel Copy Share
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share
