“Most public speakers talk so badly that a sudden quotation from a poet appears in their babble like a lady in a slum”
Austin O'Malley
“Powerpoint is simply Karaoke for Public Speakers”
Greg Gazin
“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.”
Oscar Wilde
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
“A poet who reads his own verse in public may have other nasty habits.”
Robert Heinlein
“I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.”
Christina Aguilera
“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
