Historian Quote by John Cusack

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

— Barbara Tuchman

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

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

— F. Sionil Jose

I'm not a historian. I know historians. I've worked with them. They have a really powerful way of looking at the world, and I…

— Kevin Young

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

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

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter…

— Saul Williams

History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.

— Simon Schama

“Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected romanticizing and…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

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

— Aristotle

“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

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those…

— Aristotle