Air Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

— George Edward Woodberry

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond…

— Alexis Denisof

“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

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet…

— Tom Wolfe

I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to read once…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Then, since all great poets are strange in their speech and actions, he must have achieved great fame, for his actions and conversations were…

— Robert E. Howard

We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some…

— Terry Pratchett

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

— Greg Bear

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

— Marguerite Young