Poets Make Quotes
- What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose. — Plato
- Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to… — Antonin Artaud
- Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. — Antonin Artaud
- Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners… — Socrates
- One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colors which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose — Plato