Top 37 Philosophical Poetry Quotes
#1. Philosophical poetry by moonlight was all right, but guns that shot straight and true were a necessity.
Dan Simmons
#2. The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#3. There can be no law of nature, no science,
No aberrant infliction of human will
That unchained the soul cannot conquer,
Simply sweep away, should it chose to.
Scott Hastie
#4. Poetry should make you feel good, life's already full of possibilities that make you feel bad. But, there's always the needed philosophical poem that puts you back into a reality that might not be so pleasant.
K.R. Royal
#5. I've been looking for the same thing most of us are looking for."
"What's that?"
"Someone to come home to.
Renee Carlino
#6. The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#7. Every day the world subtracts from itself and nothing
is immune.
Luanne Castle
#8. Were knowledge all, what were our need
To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?
Christopher Brennan
#9. Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#10. For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.
Aristotle.
#11. The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life
the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense
the life of Blake or of Dante
taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music.
James Joyce
#12. That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.
Euripides
#13. Does he know about me? George wonders; do any of them? Oh yes, probably. It wouldn't interest them. They don't want to know about my feelings or my glands or anything below my neck. I could just as well be a severed head carried into the classroom to lecture to them from a dish.
Christopher Isherwood
#14. If on thoughts of death we are fed,
Thus, a coffin, became my bed.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#15. The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
Franz Grillparzer
#16. On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero.
Chuck Palahniuk
#17. Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.
Victor Hugo
#18. Irony is the kid who steals music and is stolen by the music.
MEDVGNO
#19. Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need be no barriers in poetry; that the philosophical, the lyrical and the playful can be combined in work of assured and generous vision.
John Burnside
#20. No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#21. Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#22. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling stands out in my mind as the most significant innovative novel since Ulysses and The Waves. Marguerite Young has added epic grandeur to the philosophical novel. Every page gleams with the poetry of existence.
Nona Balakian
#23. Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle.
#24. If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way
Benny Bellamacina
#25. And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
Michel De Montaigne
#27. Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.
Caroline Knapp
#29. The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.
Henry David Thoreau
#30. He shut the door behind him and set about locking many dead bolts before finally sliding the chain across.
"Tough neighborhood ?" I asked. "I saw a girl on a My Little Pony bike outside ; she looked kind of nasty.
Karina Halle
#31. This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.
Robert Graves
#32. True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,
But found in the soul within.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#33. Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten,
Eternal Wisdom can never die ...
E.A. Bucchianeri
#34. Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.
Victoria Pratt
#35. Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change
Benny Bellamacina
#37. Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.
Gwen Harwood
