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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
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
History is the new poetry.
— Thomas Carlyle
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 written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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
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
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
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
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