Heart and soul Quote by Jean-Paul Malfatti

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

— Plato

“What would the human soul be without poetry?”

— Parker Bilal

A letter is the portrait of the soul.

— Josephine de Beauharnais

True poets don't write their thoughts with a pen. They release the ink that flows from within their heart.

— Ritu Ghatourey

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

— Paul Claudel

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

— Anonymous

“To a versifier, sounds are the means and the aim; a poet travels toward the aim using sounds.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“A versifier’s poem is born by the sound; a poet’s sound is born by the poem.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“A versifier passes through the sound; sounds go through a poet.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.

— Wallace Stevens

Imagine you're the words than write yourself. You're the pen, your heart is what you write.

— Jeremy Limn

A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his…

— Augustine Birrell