For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles.
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The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him.
For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.
But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?
For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet.
It is the function of a poet to relate not things that have happened, but things that may happen.
A poet must be a composer of plots rather than of verses.
The production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet.
Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
