Awoke Quote by Mary Shelley

“[Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of its forms.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The true poet dreams being awake.

— Charles Lamb

“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“I have lain awake in the darkness many nights Thinking of poems, going to sleep on poems, Finally,with the darkness closing on The bright…

— Charles E. Butler

“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

“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of our deepest…

— John H Ritter

“Poetry is the most potent form of philosophy.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop…

— Salman Rushdie

“It was a destructive novel of acquired ideas. To finally wake up in a state of creative anguish, to lose oneself in order to…

— Elie Wiesel

“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

“I believe that poems, sometimes, perhaps most of the time, ignite something into us. They can transform us overnight. Poems can go to our…

— Yash Thakur