Demonic Quote by Oliver Sacks

I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.

— Allison Hedge Coke

Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots of them…

— Glen Duncan

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

— Norman MacCaig

“For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech,…

— Dan Simmons

You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines…

— Robert Pinsky

Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position. I want…

— Adrienne Rich

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.

— Robert Graves

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

The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse…

— David Antin

poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception.

— Patricia Hampl

In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs.

— Kim Hyesoon