Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.


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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
ARISTOTLE
Poetry is more philosophical and of higher value than history.
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IAN MACLAREN AKA REV. JOHN WATSON
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
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PHOEBE CARE
Poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.
UNKNOWN
You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth
JOSEPH JOUBERT
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
It is the very error of the moon: She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, and makes men mad.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It is the very error of the moon;She comes more nearer earth than she was wont,And drives men mad.
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ISAAC NEWTON
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FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
It’s history. It’s poetry.
J.D. SALINGER
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)
PLATO
Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI
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ARISTOTLE
Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
NATALIE MERCHANT
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VICTOR HUGO
Poetry is truth in motion.
DOMINIC C. HOWARTH
Our best history is still poetry.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
We are nearer to him than his jugular vein.
ANONYMOUS
Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.
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ARISTOTLE
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Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
AUGUSTUS HARE
Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
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Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
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RICHARD LINGARD
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Plato's dialogues bear...
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DONNAYSIA IFIELD
Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.
ROBIN A.H. WATERFIELD
Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
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The best poetry, then, comes in the roughest speech?
C.S. LEWIS
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
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Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
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Plato, to incline to Christianity.
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Wisdom is oft times nearer when we stoop than when we soar
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Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.
GWEN JOHN
My mind was formed by studying philosophy, WERNER HEISENBERG The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly info...
P.D. JAMES
Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
D. H. LAWRENCE
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ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
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321.—We are nearer loving those who hate us, than those who love us more than we desire.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
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Poetry comes out of you like a pot of oatmeal boiling over.
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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.
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Knowledge is true opinion.
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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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It is right to give every man his due.
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I would fain grow old learning many things.
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Science is nothing but perception.
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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
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Courage is a kind of salvation.
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Man - a being in search of meaning.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
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Life must be lived as play.
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Necessity... the mother of invention.
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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