Forbidden Quote by Toba Beta

“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 words of a good book may be profuse, but the words of a good poem are profound.”

— Gregory John

“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“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

“Hence one meets in polite society few novelists, or poets, few of all those sublime creatures who speak of the things that are not…

— Marcel Proust

“Remember, words are the enemy of poetry.”

— Russell Edson

“Then, since all great poets are strange in their speech and actions, he must have achieved great fame, for his actions and conversations were…

— Robert E. Howard

“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

“Many are poets, but without the name; For what is Poesy but to create From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim At an external…

— George Gordon Byron

“I am so coarse, the things the poets see Are obstinately invisible to me”

— C.S. Lewis

“To a poet every curve of her was a well place word.”

— Atticus Poetry

“There has never been a poet able to heal with words, nor accurately express with phrases, the pain of missing a lost loved one.”

— Steve Maraboli