“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”
Socrates
“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
“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”
“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.
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
“Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.”
Federico Fellini
