“Souls of poets dead and gone, / What Elysium have ye known, / Happy field or mossy cavern, / Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? / Have ye tippled drink more fine / Than mine host's Canary wine?”
John Keats
“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
Oscar Wilde
“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
G. K. Chesterton
“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
“God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us”
Peter Antenberg
“Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.”
William Carlos Williams
