“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
“Philosophers are moral, and poets are picturesque about the country.”
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English poet and novelist 1802–1838Related quotes
“Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
Byron
Essays in Criticism, second series (1888)
“Poets are witnesses to Being before the philosophers are able to bring it into thought.”
William Barrett (philosopher) book Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
Source: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958), Chapter Five, Christian sources, p. 105
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) American poet
Letter to James Laughlin (14 January 1944), published in The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams (1957) edited by John C. Thirlwall, p. 219
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“To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.”
Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) German psychiatrist and philosopher
“Dialectics and reflection play the same role for the philosopher as does verse for the poet.”
Sarah Kofman (1934–1994) philosopher from France
Source: Nietzsche et la métaphore (1972), p. 13
“love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
Source: Commentary on the Metaphysics (c. 1270–1272), 1, 3; quoted in Josef Pieper, Leisure, the Basis of Culture (New York, 1952), p. 88
“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge book Biographia Literaria
Source: Biographia Literaria (1817), Ch. XV
