“Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.”
Johann Georg Hamann (1730–1788) German philosopher
Sämtliche Werken, ed. Josef Nadler (Vienna: Verlag Herder, 1949-1957), vol. II, p. 197.
“Poetry Fetter'd. Fetters the Human Race. Nations are Destroy'd, or Flourish, in proportion as Their Poetry, Painting, and Music are Destroy'd or Flourish!”
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1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820)
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“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks.”
Simonides of Ceos (-556–-468 BC) Ancient Greek musician and poet
Quoted by Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium 3.346f http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0234%3Astephpage%3D346f.<br>Variant translations:<br>Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.<br>Painting is silent poetry, poetry is eloquent painting.<br>See also: Ut pictura poesis
Jean de La Bruyère book Les Caractères
Aphorism 7
Les Caractères (1688), Des Ouvrages de l'Esprit
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“Simonides calls painting silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting.”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Whether the Athenians were more Warlike or Learned, 3
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist
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Essays on Education (1861)
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
Source: Pensées Philosophiques (1746), Ch. 3, as quoted in Selected Writings (1966) edited by Lester G. Crocker
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
A Treatise on Painting (1651); "The Paragone"; compiled by Francesco Melzi prior to 1542, first published as Trattato della pittura by Raffaelo du Fresne (1651)
Context: Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.
“Lyric poetry is a kind of poetry that's literally musical.”
Jan Zwicky (1955) Canadian philosopher
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“Financiers flourish only when nations decline.”
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838) French diplomat
Reported in, Bernard, J. F., Talleyrand: A Biography. (1973), p. 592
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