Quotes about Poetry and history

Flamboyance and fortitude, femme and butch-not poses, not stereotypes, but a dance between two different kinds of women, one beckoning the other into a full blaze of color, the other strengthening the fragility behind the exuberance. We who love this way are poetry and history, action and theory, flesh and spirit. Votes: 3

Our best history is still poetry. Votes: 1

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization. Votes: 1

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Votes: 1

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. Votes: 1

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. Votes: 1

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. Votes: 1

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature. Votes: 1

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. Votes: 1

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. Votes: 1

The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious.' Votes: 1

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published. Votes: 1

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read. Votes: 1

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. Votes: 1

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. Votes: 1

Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places - on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc. Votes: 1

I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics. Votes: 1

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that. Votes: 1

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? Votes: 1

A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval 'Carmina Burana' - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't. Votes: 1

It's history. It's poetry. Votes: 0

History is the new poetry. Votes: 0

History after all is the true poetry. Votes: 0

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. Votes: 0

History is still in large measure poetry to me. Votes: 0

I read a lot of poetry. I read some history. Votes: 0

Other than fiction and poetry I tend to read history. Votes: 0

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices. Votes: 0

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard. Votes: 0

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink. Votes: 0

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. Votes: 0

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history. Votes: 0

History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy. Votes: 0

...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history. Votes: 0

History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel. Votes: 0

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. Votes: 0

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. Votes: 0

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race. Votes: 0

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts. Votes: 0

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same. Votes: 0

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely. Votes: 0

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry. Votes: 0

It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history. Votes: 0

[The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are absolutely remarkable. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs. Votes: 0

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Votes: 0

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes? Votes: 0

Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry. Votes: 0

in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth. Votes: 0

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. Votes: 0