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• The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. -- Max Eastman (1883-1969)
• A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
  -- Max Eastman (1883-1969)...
• A poet is a kind of liar who always speaks the truth.
• At the touch of Love every one becomes a poet. -- Plato
• If you are not the poet, perhaps you can be the poem.
• Tennyson is a beautiful half of a poet. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• Thy freddled gorgonaut is crulish to the jello. -- Vorgon Poe
• I must go in, for the fog is rising." --Emily Dickinson, poet, 1830-1886
• For a good poet 's made as well as born.
  -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- To the Memory of Shakespeare...