“Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.”– Joseph Roux Related Quotes “The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.”– Frederick William Robertson “One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.”– Stephen Sondheim “I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.”– James Dickey