Art Quote by Aristotle

“Why is it that all men who have become outstanding in philosophy, statesmanship, poetry or the arts are melancholic,”

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

— Aristotle

Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it.

— Sheri S. Tepper

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

— Baltasar Gracian

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

— John Selden

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

— Allen Tate

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

— Archibald MacLeish

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who are not…

— Ayn Rand

All men are poets at heart.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more…

— William Wordsworth

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except…

— Anonymous

All men in the abstract are just and good

— Ralph Waldo Emerson