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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
- Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. — Emily Dickinson
- Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. — Emily Dickinson
- He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. — Emily Dickinson