“The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.”
Marshall McLuhan
“To be an artist you have to have talent, to be a good one you have to have insanity”
Emily Desmond
“If some musicians put more energy into their own craft, they'd be less likely to attack the artist they have a problem with 'not being'”
Larss Vincent McKevitt
“Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“kudos to the educators, athletes, dancers, judges, janitors, politicians, artists, actors, writers, singers, poets, and social activist, to all who dare to look at like with humor, determination and respect”
Maya Angelou
“A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.”
Kahlil Gibran
“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully”
Aristotle
