Alchemist Quote by George Jean Nathan

“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 is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is…

— Plato

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato

“Poetry is a poets work in clandestine chemistry and there is no ethic other than poethics!”

— Dona Mayoora

“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.”

— Debasish Mridha

“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,…

— Walt Whitman

“Poetry is no rocket science, a good poet writes from his heart!”

— Saru Singhal

“And so it’s hard for a certain kind of naïve mind at a restless, awakening time of year not to wonder, for example, what…

— Lisa R. Spaar

“We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe…

— David Livingstone Smith

“Poets aren't poets because of the way they write, they are poets because of the way they see the world.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

“The poet discovers that what men value as substances have a higher value as symbols; that Nature is the immense shadow of man. A…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson