Source: Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends
“I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
As attributed in More Random Walks in Science : An Anthology (1982) by Robert L. Weber, p. 65
Attributed
“I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker. ”
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
“Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.”
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
"The Obscurity of the Poet", p. 16
Poetry and the Age (1953)
Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Marble Faun
Source: The Marble Faun (1860), Chapter XLI: Snowdrops and Maidenly Delights
Octavio Paz (1914–1998) Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature
"Signs in Rotation" (1967) in The Bow and the Lyre : The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History (1973) as translated by Ruth L.C. Simms, p. 249
“Dialogue cannot exist without humility.”
Paulo Freire (1921–1997) educator and philosopher
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)
“Duty cannot exist without faith.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Bk. II, Ch. 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)
