Able Quote by 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

“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

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

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

— Socrates

Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect…

— William Hazlitt

A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.

— Wallace Stevens

“None but a poet can understand a poet; none but a romantic spirit transported with poetry and consecrated in the Holy of Holies an…

— E.T.A. Hoffmann

Poetry is a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being...

— Mariana Fulger

What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and…

— William Wordsworth

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