Quotes About History

Now is History as fast as the mind remembers.

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.

[The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are absolutely remarkable.

Take what the old-church found in Mithra's tomb, candle and script and bell, take what the new-church spat upon and broke and shattered.

Our best history is still poetry.

in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.

Poems are my link with the times, with the new life of my people.

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

Has it ever occurred to you, ' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

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

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932 ... and 50 million people died as a result ... what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

It is impossible to understand history, international politics, the world economy, religions, philosophy, or 'patterns of culture' without taking geography into account.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!

Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.