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“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle

“It seemed to him that all his life he had followed the ideals that other people, by their words or their writings, had instilled…

— W. Somerset Maughamset Maugham

“The poet who sees himself as a hero or a prophet, or a priest of the socio-political forces to which he is loyal, which…

— Michael D. O'Brien

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and…

— Socrates

“And while he compared all these things which he was seeing with his eyes to the mental pictures he had painted of them in…

— Hermann Hesse

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvellously made and for some great end. Although he is…

— Al-Ghazali

“The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of morals... he knows the soul. The soul has that measureless pride which consists in…

— Walt Whitman

“poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist.”

— Walter Isaacson

“He has written about equality, the perfectibility of human nature, and the essential goodness of mankind for many years -- he judges others by…

— Patrick O'Brian

“The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is…

— Plato