(367 quotes found)
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact”
William Shakespeare
“Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand”
Plato
“Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me”
Sigmund Freud
“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
“What is it that escapes the observation of poets? What is that act women are incapable of doing? What will drunken people not prate? What will not a crow eat?”
Chanakya
“I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.”
Bob Dylan
“The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.”
Socrates
“As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect”
Edgar Allan Poe
“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness”
Christopher Morley
