Assumption Quote by Jan Clausen

For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens…

— Plato

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

— Julian Jaynes

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

— Muhammad Iqbal

The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will…

— Matthew Arnold

Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But…

— Edmund Waller

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?

— Eugene H. Peterson

It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop things from…

— Matthew Zapruder

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

— Muhammad Iqbal

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

— Ruben Dario

“The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without…

— Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

— Honore de Balzac

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

— Marguerite Young