Brilliance Quote by Richard Tillinghast

“He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations, either in…

— Anonymous

“When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence”

— John F. Kennedy

“Any poet may find the most profound themes scattered along the path. Observation, if passionate, however, might debauch the deepest of themes.”

— Alok Mishra

“The greatest poet hardly knows pettiness or triviality. If he breathes into any thing that was before thought small it dilates with the grandeur…

— Walt Whitman

“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

“He is a Londoner, too, in his writings. In his familiar letters he displays a rambling urban vivacity, a tendency to to veer off…

— Peter Ackroyd

“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 who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of…

— Babette Deutsch

“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

“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

“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Under all his culture, his cleverness, his amenity, under his good-nature, his facility, his knowledge of life, his egotism lay hidden like a serpent…

— Henry James