Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

We have more poets thatnjudges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem that to understand a good one.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Most joyful the Poet be;<br>It is through him that all men see.

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.