“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
“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
Oscar Wilde
“The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.”
Plato
“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
“A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman”
Wallace Stevens
“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully”
Aristotle
“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
