“When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.”
T.S. Eliot
“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”
Vincent van Gogh
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a molehill to a mountain”
Edmund Burke
“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
“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
