Casts Quote by Anonymous

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the…

— Rollo May

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

— Edmund Burke

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

— Dan Simmons

“Poets must first ponder themselves and learn to see the beauty within them to allow the beauty to spill out of them in ink…

— Jeffrey G. Duarte

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

— Carl Sandburg

for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside…

— Plato

A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving…

— Dan Simmons