Plato

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Write drunk, revise sober.

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