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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
- All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things. — Robert Creeley
- Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority. — Robert Creeley
- The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to. — Robert Creeley