Quotes About Poetry

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.

Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment.

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

Science is not addressed to poets.

When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.

In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

They compose poems to their knives.

It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.