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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
- The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. — Gustave Flaubert
- One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. — Gustave Flaubert
- Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work. — Gustave Flaubert