Historian Quote by Samuel Johnson

Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod…

— Samuel Johnson

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

— Anonymous

“His is a poetry devoid of any poetry.”

— Pietros Maneos

“Poetry wasn't written to be analysed: it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”

— Nicholas Sparks

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

— William Temple

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

— Henry David Thoreau

“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the…

— T.S. Eliot

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

— Sophie Swetchine

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.

— Katherine Anne Porter

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

— Marcus Aurelius

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

— Anonymous

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

— Nicholas Sparks