Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Why should poetry have to make sense?
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
Poesy dissolves foreign being into our own.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Melody gives a sensible existence to poetry.
The poem: a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense.
Poetry, it's one of the most pretty nicknames we give to life.
Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings.
We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
The poet consecrates himself to and consumes himself in the task of defining and constructing a language within the language.
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
Poetry is indispensable — if I only knew what for.
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
There are dreams that are pure poems.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
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