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Classical antiquity6 quotes
Among all men on Earth, bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the Muse has taught them songs, and loves the race of bards. — Homer · 700 BCI have erected a monument more lasting than bronze. — Horace · 23 BCThere were poets before Homer. — Cicero · 46 BCIf you want me to weep, you must first feel grief yourself. — Horace · 19 BCNo verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace · 20 BCSo poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history, for while poetry is concerned with universal truth, history treats of particular facts. — Aristotle · 335 BCThe Renaissance2 quotes
Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. — Leonardo da Vinci · 1519For when this song is sung and past,
My lute, be still, for I have done. — Thomas Wyatt · 1557Age of Enlightenment1 quote
Poets...tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions. — David Hume · 1739