“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.”– Gustave Flaubert Related Quotes “It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.”– Brooks Atkinson “I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.”– J. Courtney Sullivan “In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.”– Paul Dirac