Deals Quote by Saul Williams

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

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Aristotle

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

— John Cusack

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those…

— Aristotle

Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over…

— Mary Ruefle

A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably… For this reason poetry…

— Aristotle

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those…

— Aristotle

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

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

— Aristotle

“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