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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“One of those leaders of what they call the social revolution has said that religion is the opiate of the people. Opium…opium…opium, yes. Let us give them opium so that they can sleep and dream.”

“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.”

“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.”