Famous quotes containing the words poems, allan, poe, sonnet and/or science:
“Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as toil gives to sour bread. The breath with which the poet utters his verse must be that by which he lives.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“This wild star—it is now three centuries since, with clasped hands, and with streaming eyes,... I spoke it ... into birth.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.”
—Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974)