Law Quote by Jean Giraudoux

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer…

— Jean Giraudoux

In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.

— Nikki Giovanni

“She was learning to treat laws as most people treat poems, making them mean whatever she wanted them to without reference to the author's…

— Jane Rule

The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers, without the…

— Thomas Hobbes

“Do lawyers read poetry?”

— Kestral M. Gaian

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

— A. R. Ammons

I don't think there's any law where you have to read a poem and immediately understand it.

— Nick Laird

Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that…

— Marcus Aurelius

I came to realize that the law is about a book of rules, and he who learns them best, and is the most creative…

— Kenneth Cole

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

— May Sarton

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

— A. R. Ammons

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

— Nikki Giovanni