Dream Quote by Anonymous

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets…

— Socrates

Who, except the poets, reads poetry?

— Babette Deutsch

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many…

— Plato

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

— Peter Davison

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“This night shalt thou know the favour of the Gods, and behold on Parnassus those dreams which the Gods have through ages sent to…

— H.P. Lovecraft

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in…

— Eugenio Montale

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes…

— Edward Hirsch

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you…

— Socrates

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

— Anonymous

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch