History Quote by Kevin Young

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

— Amanda Gorman

It’s history. It’s poetry.

— Anonymous

History is the new poetry.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

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

“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

History is still in large measure poetry to me.

— Jacob Burckhardt

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

— Barbara Tuchman

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

— Aristotle

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Aristotle

I've always felt that the poems I've written which have historical context are hopefully not just simply plucking something out of history and saying…

— Rita Dove