“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness”
Christopher Morley
“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
Oscar Wilde
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
“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
“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
“Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Let the pen and ink be wholly forbidden as if he were a mad poet of Bedlam.”
Nicolas Biddle
