Baptized Quote by George Edward Woodberry

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to…

— Honore de Balzac

“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 should even act his story with the very gestures of his personages. Given the same natural qualifications, he who feels the emotions…

— Aristotle

The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul…

— Myrtle Reed

“The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him; on the one hand, the common…

— Anonymous

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

— Horace

“Poetry is man’s best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.”

— John Ciardi

“Poetry is thoughts that breath and words that burn.”

— Thomas Grey

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.

— Ovid

A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire…

— W. H. Auden