“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.”

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

“The warfare between poetry and philosophy certainly started with Plato, who was both poet and philosopher.”

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

“Being good is the same as being a philosopher. If you obey your father, you will follow the will of a man; if you choose the philosopher's life, the will of God. It is plain, therefore, that your duty lies in the pursuit of philosophy.”

“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.”

“Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.”

“The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.”