Existence Quote by Wallace Stevens

“When humankind cannot produce a philosopher to speak its mind, it longs for a poet to sing its heart”

— Subhan Zein

The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.

— Antonio Machado

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

— Henry David Thoreau

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.”

— Anonymous

The true philosopher is one who makes people believe that he admires what he does not admire.

— Vikrant Parsai

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.

— Horace Bushnell

“Poetry is the most potent form of philosophy.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

— Anonymous

“A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his…

— Mark Forsyth