“The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“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
“The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“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
“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words”
John Fowles
