Knowledge Quote by William Wordsworth

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

— Brooks Atkinson

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

— William Wordsworth

It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge,…

— Guy Davenport

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

— Mark Doty

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

— William Wordsworth

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

— Leigh Hunt

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

— May Sarton

Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die,

— Marie Howe

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

— Dennis Gabor

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

— Camille Paglia

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver