Quotes About Wisdom

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.

If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

You are never too old to become younger!

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.

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

Poetry and philosophy will become friends.

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

Poetry's object is truth.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause.

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

Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

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

There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor.