Artisans Quote by Plato

We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion…

— Dorianne Laux

“I knew that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners or soothsayers…

— Plato

It is important for poets and writers today to know their shortcomings, and be able to edit their own work as well as reject…

— Gulzar

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you…

— Socrates

“I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise…

— Socrates

I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be…

— Alexander Pope

Poets are supposed to be underappreciated, don't you know? There is always a strange reaction to those who become successful in their own lifetime,…

— John Cooper Clarke

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

— Russell Simmons

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet,…

— Oscar Wilde

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better…

— Mark Twain

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader…

— Lydia Davis