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- Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau
- One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. — Voltaire
- For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen. — John Dryden
- Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds. — John Dryden
- Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught. — John Dryden