“Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.”
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
William Wordsworth306
English Romantic poet 1770–1850Related quotes
Paul Klee (1879–1940) German Swiss painter
Quote of Klee (Munich, c. 1910); as cited by Gualtieri Di San Lazzaro, Klee, Praeger, New York, 1957, p. 16
Klee was married, had a young son then and did the housework, living in an suburb of Munich
1903 - 1910
“Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.”
James Mackintosh (1765–1832) British politician
Vindiciæ Gallicæ (1791).
Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic
The Final Declaration (1954)
Context: For man to have a glimpse of lasting happiness, he has first to realize that God, being in all, knows all; that God alone acts and reacts through all; that God, in the guise of countless animate and inanimate entities, experiences the innumerably varied phenomena of suffering and happiness. Thus, it is God who has brought suffering in human experience to its height, and God alone who will efface this illusory suffering and bring the illusory happiness to its height.
“The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.”
Louise Glück (1943–2023) American poet
Source: "Against Sincerity", in American Poetry Review, Vol. XXII, No. 5 (1993), p. 29
“To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”
Henry Lee III (1756–1818) American politician, governor and representative
Memoirs of Lee, "Eulogy on Washington", Dec. 26, 1799, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). First presented in a slightly modified form as: "To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens", Resolutions presented to the United States' House of Representatives, on the Death of Washington, December, 1799. The eulogy was delivered a week later. Marshall, in his Life of Washington, volume v. page 767, says in a note that these resolutions were prepared by Colonel Henry Lee, who was then not in his place to read them. General Robert E. Lee, in the Life of his father (1869), prefixed to the Report of his father's Memoirs of the War of the Revolution, gives (p. 5) the expression "fellow-citizens"; but on p. 52 he says: "But there is a line, a single line, in the Works of Lee which would hand him over to immortality, though he had never written another: 'First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen' will last while language lasts".
“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Article on Biography.
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
Variant: For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.
“poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge”
William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads
Source: Lyrical Ballads