“Neither men nor gods nor bookstalls have ever allowed poets to be mediocre.”
Horace
“When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue”
Benjamin Franklin
“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
“God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us”
Peter Antenberg
“The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.”
Socrates
“God is the perfect poet, / Who in his person acts his own creations.”
Robert Browning
“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
