Art Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Poetry is an ongoing conversation with the past and the future and the present. I'm interested in that continuity, in that way of tying…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish

“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all science.”

— William Wordsworth

Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.

— Amanda Gorman

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

— Aristotle

“Though science makes no use for poetry, poetry is enriched by science. Poetry “takes up” the scientific vision and re-expresses its truths, but always…

— L.P. Jacks

Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is the end…

— Randall Jarrell

“Philosophy deals in the abstract and the universal, but not in the particular. History deals only in the particular, not with general principles. Poetry…

— Anonymous

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

— Matthew Arnold

“Poetry is the image of man and nature”

— Wordsworth William

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its…

— Babette Deutsch