“Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain, he feels, who night and day, devoid of rest, carries his own accuser in his breast”
Juvenal
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
“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
“I did not come here on earth to sleep, I came to work.”
Mitta Xinindlu
“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
Oscar Wilde
“God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us”
Peter Antenberg
