Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance. Jean Anouilh
French dramatist (1910 - 1987) Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read. Voltaire
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. Henry David Thoreau
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. Percy Bysshe Shelley The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry. L. Schefer The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. Frederick William Robertson Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. Plato
Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. Michel de Montaigne
French essayist (1533 - 1592) My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. Orson Welles
US actor & director (1915 - 1985) Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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