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's the exact opposite.Paul Dirac
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.Charles Darwin
Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.Jean-Paul Sartre
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.Frank Lloyd Wright
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.Robert Morgan
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.Paul Auster
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.Sylvia Plath
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.Plato
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.Carol Ann Duffy
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.Seamus Heaney
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.Niels Bohr
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.Jim Morrison
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.Socrates
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.Leonard Cohen
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.William Wordsworth
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.Aristotle