“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“Let me tell you what's funny about gay poets; women will love them because they will relate to the subject matter of what the gay poet is presenting to the public. Take it from me, I've been there!”
A.J. Chilson
“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 ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words”
John Fowles
“Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.”
Federico Fellini
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