“Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand that we should make of philosophy (that it be interesting) is the first we make of a poem; the philosophical poet has an elevated and methodical, but forlorn and absurd air as he works away at his flying tank, his sewing-machine that also plays the piano.” ShouldFirstsPhilosophyPlayLastsInterestingAirPoetDemandMachinesPhilosophicalFlyingAbsurdMediumsInstancePianoPoetry IsRequirementsTanksSewingForlornMethodical Author:Randall Jarrell
“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.” PeopleMindHumansArtPhilosophySpeakKnownOriginalsPoetry IsHuman MindOutlets Author:Allen Ginsberg
“Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment "Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure; Sighed to think I read a book Only read perhaps by me!” ThinkingWorldBookPhilosophyFeelingsPleasurePracticeLonelinessTaughtReturnDemandLonelySimplicityWorthyPoetry IsSentimentsSpunWordsworthShunning Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard
“Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular and by means of examples, science embraces the whole of phenomena by means of general conceptions. So poetry seeks to make us acquainted with the Platonic Ideas through the particular and by means of examples. Philosophy aims at teaching, as a whole and in general, the inner nature of things which expresses itself in these. One sees even here that poetry bears more the character of youth, philosophy that of old age.” MeanIdeasPhilosophyWholeCharacterAgeTeachingExampleYouthParticularBearsAimEmbraceOld AgeRelatedPoetry IsPhenomenonConceptionPlatonic Book:The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3) Source: The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)
“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.” ShouldArtPhilosophyWholePoetryUnitedModernPoetPhilosophicalPoetry IsCommentaryModern Poetry Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel