Quote by Muhammad Iqbal
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir o

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. – Muhammad Iqbal

Other quotes by Muhammad Iqbal

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Nature
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It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized. – Muhammad Iqbal

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alone
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Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Religion
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I have had much to learn from Swedens poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation. – Knut Hamsun

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Poetry
[P]oets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science. – Sigmund Freud, quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations by Alan L. Mackay

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Poetry

I didnt want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months. – Tom Wesselmann

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Poetry

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both. – Wilfred Owen

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Poetry

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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. – Sigmund Freud

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Four men are missing R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance whether killed or lost, we cannot tell. – Francis Parkman

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