3 Denis Diderot Quotes on Poetry

Denis Diderot quotes on poetry

28. When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

52. Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

53. When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.