poetry Quotes

Poetry is deeper and more meaningful than history because it talks about general truths, while history talks about specific events.

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

Therefore, poetry is more philosophical and serious than history, because its statements are more universal, while history's are specific.

Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black... ...

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

When writing the plot and choosing the right words, the poet should imagine the scene as clearly as possible. By seeing everything vividly, as if watching it happen, they will find what fits and are less likely to miss inconsistencies.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other... ...

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.