Quotes About Knowledge

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

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

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.

There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.

I never had much education in English poetry as such.

Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.

Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.

For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.

The one who pulls the puppet strings knows fairytales can heal.

For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object of both alike was evocation of energies and knowledge from beyond normal consciousness.

Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the moon come down to earth.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.