Able Quote by 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

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

— Socrates

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

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

— Wallace Stevens

“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

“Inspiration without intellect is useless and dangerous; and the poet will be able to perform few wonders, when he is astonished by wonders.”

— Novalis

“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other body.”

— John Keats

“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.”

— David J Delaney

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann