Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
PLATO But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hob...
THOMAS LYNCH But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or...
THOMAS LYNCH Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history...
ARISTOTLE 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.
ARISTOTLE Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle.
IAN MACLAREN AKA REV. JOHN WATSON Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
RUSSELL BAKER One sweetly solemn thought, Comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, Than I ever have been...
PHOEBE CARY One sweetly solemn though comes to me over and over, I am nearer to home today than I have ever been...
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 Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourse...
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.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for...
LAFCADIO HEARN One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever h...
PHOEBE CARY Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
ISAAC NEWTON The more one loves the mistress, the nearer one comes to hating her
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 Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of ...
ARISTOTLE Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
NATALIE MERCHANT History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth...
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.
ROBERT GILFILLAN Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements a...
ARISTOTLE Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the hea...
CHERYL HINES 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.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere de...
CHARLES SANDERS PIERCE There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere des...
CHARLES SANDERS PIERCE There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere des...
CHARLES PIERCE Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
JOSEPH ROUX Poetry without truth, is like a rose without thorns.
Still pretty,
But sometime the ...
CODY EDWARD LEE MILLER Truth and History involve nothing more than convincing the masses that you are right.
JON R. SIME Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
DAVID HARE All maps are fiction when the world is seen from the sky. But if ten thousand dragons choose to beli...
NAOMI NOVIK Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.
BOBBY JINDAL I would rather err with Plato than think rightly with these (Pythagoreans)
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
RICHARD LINGARD My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history b...
DAVE BRAT The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than ...
TERRY PRATCHETT It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vit...
BROOKS ATKINSON If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.
SYLVIA PLATH Plato's dialogues bear...
BENJAMIN JOWETT That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the asser...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Don't get upset when they try and change or not teach our history because they're willing to learn o...
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.
SEAMUS HEANEY 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.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Nearer, my God, to Thee--
Nearer to Thee--
E'en though it be a cross
That raiseth me;
...
MRS. SARAH FLOWER ADAMS Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
NIKOLAI GOGOL Love’s not some amorphous concept created for books and poetry and not attainable. It’s real and...
NORA ROBERTS Plato, to incline to Christianity.
BLAISE PASCAL Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.
BILLY GRAHAM Believers, look up -- take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.
BILLY GRAHAM Wisdom is oft times nearer when we stoop than when we soar
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
JUNE JORDAN With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclu...
STEPHEN JAY GOULD Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life ...
DEAN INGE 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 The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD 321.—We are nearer loving those who hate us, than those who love us more than we desire.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The Establishment Won't Be Satisfied Until They Have Turned Us All Into Plato's Cavemen
DEAN CAVANAGH The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make...
HENRY LOUIS GATES Poetry comes out of you like a pot of oatmeal boiling over.
DENNIS VICKERS I fantasize that our politicians have been moved by the dialogues of Plato, and thus contemplate the...
DANIEL S. LOEB Plato is boring.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Truth comes only to a prepared mind.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than se...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than se...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Wherever you are lacking, your obedience in working on that before your mate comes is vital.
ANGELO M. SWINSON When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer...
BELL HOOKS Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
ORSON F. WHITNEY Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
A. N. WILSON Plato was a bore.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is vital to gauge from where one comes, where one is on that journey and where one wishes to go.
JAIME CONTRERAS We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than ...
A.W. TOZER As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
LYNDON B. JOHNSON For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written —...
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PLATO He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
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PLATO Life must be lived as play.
PLATO Necessity... the mother of invention.
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Across the tide to see her image there:
Then looking u...
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PLATO