“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

“Philosophers are moral, and poets are picturesque about the country.”

“Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.”

“Poets are witnesses to Being before the philosophers are able to bring it into thought.”

“Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.”

“Theological myths suit philosophers, physical and psychic suit poets, mixed suit religious initiations, since every initiation aims at uniting us with the world and the Gods.”

“To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.”

“Dialectics and reflection play the same role for the philosopher as does verse for the poet.”

“love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.”

“The reason, however, why the philosopher may be likened to the poet is this: both are concerned with the marvellous.”