Quotes About Philosophy

My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.

Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.

for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.

If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.

Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged

The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.