“Great wits jump (says the Poet) and hit his Head against the Post”
Benjamin Franklin
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
“The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thought and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains.”
John Muir
“Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I did not come here on earth to sleep, I came to work.”
Mitta Xinindlu
“To be a wit, intelligence is enough; to be a poet takes imagination”
Cardinalde Bernis
“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
Oscar Wilde