Quotes on History
Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in
our living, constantly remake.
~Robert Penn Warren
History must be written of, by and for the survivors.
~Anonymous
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
~O. W. Holmes, Jr.
History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realized: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.
~A. L. Rowse
I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past--can't be restored.
~Mark Twain
our living, constantly remake.
~Robert Penn Warren
History must be written of, by and for the survivors.
~Anonymous
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
~O. W. Holmes, Jr.
History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realized: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.
~A. L. Rowse
I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past--can't be restored.
~Mark Twain