“Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.”

“Poet's food is love and fame.”

“Poets, the best of them, are a very chameleonic race; they take the colour not only of what they feed on, but of the very leaves under which they pass”

“I'm...like a poet hiddenIn the light of thought Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not.”

“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

“The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error.”

“A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.”