Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Source: Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
Context: You'll never know that you had all of me.
You'll never know the poetry you've stirred in me.
Of all the stars I've seen that shine so brightly,
I've never known or felt in myself so rightly,
It's in me…
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Source: Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist
Lectures on Education delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, 1855, published in "What Knowledge is of Most Worth", The Westminster Review (July 1859) volume CXLI, p. 1-23, at p. 19 http://books.google.com/books?id=5NQ6AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA19 <br class="br">Context: The current opinion that science and poetry are opposed is a delusion. … Think you that a drop of water, which to the vulgar eye is but a drop of water, loses any thing in the eye of the physicist who knows that its elements are held together by a force which, if suddenly liberated, would produce a flash of lightning? Think you that what is carelessly looked upon by the uninitiated as a mere snow-flake does not suggest higher associations to one who has seen through a microscope the wondrously varied and elegant forms of snow-crystals? Think you that the rounded rock marked with parallel scratches calls up as much poetry in an ignorant mind as in the mind of a geologist, who knows that over this rock a glacier slid a million years ago? The truth is, that those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
"Who says words with my mouth?" in Ch. 1 : The Tavern, p. 2
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
Letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1870), letter #342a of The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958), edited by Thomas H. Johnson, associate editor Theodora Ward, page 474
Source: Selected Letters
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Poetry
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XII - The Enfant Terrible of Literature
“The poetry of earth is never dead.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
" Sonnet. On the Grasshopper and the Cricket http://www.bartleby.com/126/28.html" <br class="br">Poems (1817)