Insight Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Thomas Carlyle

I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be…

— Corliss Lamont

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

— Aristotle

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the…

— Robert Penn Warren

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

Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.

— John Dewey

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that…

— Joseph Brodsky

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

— C.D. Wright

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

— James Russell Lowell

“To want to give to prose the rhythm of verse (but keeping it very much prose), and to want to write about ordinary life…

— Gustav Flaubert

In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end…

— Dallin H. Oaks

As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition'…

— Philip Larkin