Inspiration Quote by 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing, to pass the brute body and search the life and reason which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on…

— Jack Kerouac

“God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that…

— Socrates

“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.”

— D.A. Botta

“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

“One will surely understand what I consider to be the function of poetry. It is to nourish the spirit of man by giving him…

— Frances Ponge