Artistic expression Quote by Ruth Padel

“Accuracy is sacrificed in the name of better poetry.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.”

— Julian Barnes

“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all science.”

— William Wordsworth

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

— David Whyte

“Sometimes science isn't enough. Sometimes you need the poets.”

— Cath Crowley

“I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Science confirms faith in ways only a poet could understand.”

— Jonah Gibson

“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it…

— Lord Kelvin

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

— Mahmoud Darwish

“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

“Though science makes no use for poetry, poetry is enriched by science. Poetry “takes up” the scientific vision and re-expresses its truths, but always…

— L.P. Jacks

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

— F. R. Leavis