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All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose. — Santosh Kalwar

These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite. — Lucian Of Samosata

They say that history is going on somewhere.
They say it won't stop. I have held
One picture still for a long time and waited. — William Stafford

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

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. — Seamus Heaney

It's history. It's poetry. — J.D. Salinger

Now is History as fast as the mind remembers. — Kirby Wright

...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history. — Procopius Of Caesarea

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry. — Victor Hugo

History is still in large measure poetry to me. — Jacob Burckhardt

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. — Claude Calame

Brahma and Airavata
Long ago in lands of golden sand
Brahma turned to Saraswati
and gently kissed her inked hand ... — Muse

History is the new poetry. — Thomas Carlyle

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. — Edward Hirsch

We will remain unwritten through history, no X will mark us on the map; but in books of prose and poetry, you loved me once, in a paragraph. — Lang Leav

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon

Then, after picking up his papers, Pierre began: "A beautiful woman can be the downfall of a gentleman . . . but the uplift of a beggar! — Ted Anthony Roberts

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die. — Saul Williams

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

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. — Plato

The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians ... — Barbara Tuchman

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

English kings married their cousins and so their kids were as sharp as clubs. — Peter Prasad

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts. — Thomas B. Macaulay

History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy. — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. — Robert Staughton Lynd

A fortress built long ago,
Walls made timeless by historic glory.
The small girl in the boat slows,
To listen to its story. — Rachel Lewis

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

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. — Joseph Campbell

The history of man is a must read poetry. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

Going down in history is a dead end pursuit — Benny Bellamacina

Chivalry is itself the poetry of life. - SCHLEGEL, Philosophy of History. — Inazo Nitobe

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance. — Dejan Stojanovic

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely. — David McCullough

History after all is the true poetry. — Thomas Carlyle

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

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed. — Dejan Stojanovic

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization. — Orson F. Whitney

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices. — Susan Howe

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard. — Henry David Thoreau

Reconstructing the past is rather like translating poetry. It can be done, but never exactly. — Norman Davies

If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee? — Ryan Goodrich

History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel. — Simon Schama

History will be erased in the universal purgatory. — Dejan Stojanovic

Our best history is still poetry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson