Plato

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and charm and gaiety to life.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

Write drunk, revise sober.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

Poetry without music may be beautiful, but music gives poetry wings and elevates it into song. That may be the reason for our love of song-it has wings and lifts us; with proper songs, it is a nourishing spiritual exercise.