Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations... →
Jean-Paul Sartre
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
Erik Satie
History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.
Simon Schama
As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.
Somehow, the words don't have any vitality, any life to them, unless I can feel it marking on a paper. That's how I start. Once I'm off... →
The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a costume... →
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against... →
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.