Asks Quote by Lynn Freed

“And I think that you must have observed again and again what a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the…

— Plato

“i have heard of the stars, of the play of light on the waves these i would like to see but far more than…

— Helen Keller

“Strauss! Oh yes, he was so-so. He wrote pretty music- The Blue Danube and Tales from the Vienna Woods. But what is that compared…

— Carolyn Keene

“The world was a glorious place this morning. The birds were particularly noisy in their greeting to the day. The sky was a cloudless…

— Karen Ranney

“Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we are not…

— Roberto Calasso

O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life you have left in our souls!

— Franz Schubert

“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

“And from then on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, infused with stars and lactescent, Devouring the green azure where, like a…

— Anonymous

“Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.”

— W. H. Auden

“My dear poetry, There’s a likeness between your eyes and the stars –the same charming brilliance, my eyes have ever laid upon.”

— Ymatruz

“A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will.”

— Horace