Composition Quote by Plato

“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

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato

“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

for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside…

— Plato

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

— Plato

“He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.”

— Len Jenkin

“A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.”

— Ben Johnson

“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

“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.”

— D.A. Botta

“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.”

— Wallace Stevens

“Poetry is the fellatio of the mind, but there's nothing there.”

— the mag man

“Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing, to pass the brute body and search the life and reason which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson