Discovery Quote by Northrop Frye

A poem is a record of a discovery.

— Ted Kooser

each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.

— May Sarton

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to…

— A. R. Ammons

“I believe that this example demonstrates how great science and great poetry are both visionary, and may even arrive at the same intuitions. Our…

— Carlo Rovelli

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

— Rory Sutherland

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

— James Russell Lowell

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the latter poetry has become science.

— James Russell Lowell

Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how…

— Anonymous

What I see in science is a lot of imagination referring to things that are fundamental to what we are. Our cells, our history,…

— Alex Garland

From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific discoveries become…

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun