Plato

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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.

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.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

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

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

Write drunk, revise sober.

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