Plato

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Write drunk, revise sober.

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