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Joseph Joubert on Poetry

1754–1824 France

← All quotes by Joseph Joubert

5 quotes

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.

Pearls of Thought (1881)

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

Pearls of Thought (1881)

You go to truth by way of poetry and I go to poetry by way of truth.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

He who has no poetry in himself will find poetry in nothing.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

Let us look to beautiful poetry for the material of a beautiful prose.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joseph Joubert (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.