“Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.”
Federico Fellini
“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
“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
“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
“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
