Art Quote by Julian Barnes

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

— Gustave Flaubert

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

— Gustave Flaubert

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

— Gustave Flaubert

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

— Gustave Flaubert

“I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.”

— Charles Bukowski

“If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is…

— Plato

“Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems.”

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can’t understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good one.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Poetry or science, what matters is saying it how you see it. Saying precisely what and how you saw, and no more. In science,…

— Ruth Padel

“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all logic, nor all mathematics, but is somewhat beauty and poetry.”

— Maria Mitchell

“Poetry: a weapon to articulate the world the way I see it.~”

— Niki Herd