Friends Quote by Swami Vivekananda

Like contemporary poetry, philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study - which is…

— Samuel R. Delany

“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, to life itself, than this incessant business.”

— Henry David Thoreau

In Dogen's writing, the practical instruction, philosophy and poetry are together in one voice. People hear about his poetry, go to his work, and…

— Kazuaki Tanahashi

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

— Augustus William Hare

When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“Philosophy deals in the abstract and the universal, but not in the particular. History deals only in the particular, not with general principles. Poetry…

— Anonymous

“Poetry and Philosophy (The Sonnet) Good poetry is but philosophy, Good philosophy is but poetry. It is only the majority amateurs, Who insist on…

— Abhijit Naskar

I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and makes writing…

— Etel Adnan

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress true talent.…

— Katherine Anne Porter

History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.

— Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward,…

— James Joyce