Deep Quote by Matthew Arnold

“That's old Twoflower, Rincewind thought. It’s not that he doesn’t appreciate beauty, he just appreciates it in his own way. I mean, if a…

— Terry Pratchett

The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?

— Augustus William Hare

“The poet who sees himself as a hero or a prophet, or a priest of the socio-political forces to which he is loyal, which…

— Michael D. O'Brien

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

— Peter Kreeft

Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.

— David Biespiel

“Vivian Bloodmark, a philosophical friend of mine, in later years, used to say that while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Yet nothing can be more certain than this: what makes a poet a poet is the fact that he sees himself surrounded by figures…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will…

— James A. Michener

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this…

— Robert Schumann

A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't see is…

— George M. Church

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

— Kurt Vonnegut