Art Quote by the mag man

“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

“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

“I believe that poems, sometimes, perhaps most of the time, ignite something into us. They can transform us overnight. Poems can go to our…

— Yash Thakur

“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

“There is always an unspeakable where, perhaps, the nucleus of the living relation between the poem and the world resides.”

— Adrienne Rich

“I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.”

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“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

“Perchance, dear reader, you will then believe that nothing is stranger and madder than actual life, and that this is all that the poet…

— E.T.A. Hoffmann

“But my life, oh, my life, had been a constant search for an enormous dream in which my fellow creatures and animals, plants, chimeras,…

— Aleksander Wat

“Poetry is sometimes cryptic because we don’t always want things easily understood. Painful truth is hard enough as it is, but sometimes we want…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

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

— D.A. Botta

“This observation, understanding, and appreciation, when combined with the excellence of poetic expression, produce the best poetry, steeped in poetic truth and served with…

— Alok Mishra