“If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.”
Charles Ives
“I can't say I hate cats, but holy cow, dogs are a horse of another color.”
“Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
“The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.”
Jacques Maritain
“Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.”
Louis Untermeyer
“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
