Cases Quote by Rita Dove

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 is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

— A. L. Rowse

Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats vanguard gestures…

— Ben Lerner

“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

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

— Thomas Carlyle

A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in…

— Natasha Trethewey

History is the new poetry.

— Thomas Carlyle

Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.

— Kevin Young

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

— Gaston Bachelard

“The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual…

— Anonymous

It’s history. It’s poetry.

— Anonymous