Composer Quote by Franz Schubert

“a poet must be a composer of plots rather than of verses,”

— Aristotle

“He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met with in…

— Voltaire

The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is…

— Babette Deutsch

“It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that…

— Louisa May Alcott

“...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no…

— Orhan Pamuk

“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent…

— Curtis Ackie

“he shewed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless agony of…

— Jane Austen

“By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; since nought so stockish, hard and…

— William Shakespeare

The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration... I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my musical blood going, even…

— Giuseppe Verdi

“He never described himself as a poet or his work as poetry. The fact that the lines do not come to the edge of…

— Leonard Cohen

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

— George Edward Woodberry

“His spirit was warped by bitter vindictiveness and puerile self-commiseration, and he spent his days in scorn of the labour that brought him bread…

— Willa Cather