Demon Quote by D. H. Lawrence

He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name,…

— Anonymous

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

— Aristotle

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

— Horace

Poetry is telling something to someone.

— Marie Howe

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

— Ray Bradbury

“It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it.”

— Richard Russo

“Children delight in poetry if they are not frightened away by adults' fear of poetry.”

— Mary Crow

A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once…

— Saint Augustine

“I have this demon who wants me to run away screaming if I am going to be flawed, fallible. It wants me to think…

— Sylvia Plath

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

— Oscar Wilde

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

— John Updike

“A demon obsessed with being human is a demon no longer”

— John Connolly