Authorship Quote by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“This night shalt thou know the favour of the Gods, and behold on Parnassus those dreams which the Gods have through ages sent to…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“But least is he who, with enchanted eyes Filled with high visions of fair shapes to be, Muses which god he shall immortalize In…

— Edith Wharton

“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

“If a man goes up into Parnassus after sunset, why should he not see strange things? The gods still walk there, and a man…

— Mary Stewart

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Surely there can be but one rule of right, if morality has an eternal foundation, and whoever sacrifices virtue, strictly so called, to present…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven, Then, to the measure of that heaven-born light, Shine, Poet! in thy place, and be content:…

— William Wordsworth

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

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

— Socrates

The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations…

— Aldous Huxley

Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle from the…

— Thomas Carlyle