Exercise Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I knew that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners or soothsayers…

— Plato

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

— Samuel Beckett

All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

— William C. Bryant

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Poetry is both; enlightenment and wisdom.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you…

— Socrates

I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that the world knows nothing of its greatest men; but there…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

— Jacques Lacan

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun