Hannah Kaiser

“Philosophy deals in the abstract and the universal, but not in the particular. History deals only in the particular, not with general principles. Poetry deals with both, illustrating universal principles with particular examples or embodiments of those principles:
Now doth the peerless poet perform both: for whatsoever the philosopher saith should be done, he giveth a perfect picture of it in someone by whom he presupposeth it was done; so as he coupleth the general notion with the particular example.
Another advantage poetry has over philosophy is greater clarity:

the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught. But the poet is the food for the tenderest stomachs, the poet is indeed the right popular philosopher.

Essentially, poetry shows history more brilliantly than history, and explains philosophy more cogently than philosophy.”
― Philip Sydney

“I want to do good work. I want to be involved in other people's doing good work.”
― Toni Morrison

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Virginia Woolf

“I am profoundly enchanted by the flowing complexity in you.”
― John Keats