Eye Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Though the body is its genesis, a poem is the vision of a process Out of ceaseless motion in edgeless space Carved in space,…

— Frank Bidart

“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 at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another…

— Guy Davenport

“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

Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men's lives; must look at the…

— William Baziotes

“The sky too is deep, the water immeasurably deep. Of heaven and earth we know nothing [unnamed poet]”

— Alan Booth

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 true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see…

— Jacob Grimm

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

— Helen Hayes

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And…

— Anonymous

It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.

— Richard Eberhart