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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 poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend. — Lord Byron
- Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. — Lord Byron
- Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. — Lord Byron