Philip Sidney·1591"Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write."
William Wordsworth·1800Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Michelangelo·1540The best of artists has no conception that a single block of marble does not contain within itself, beneath its surface; only the hand that obeys the intellect can reach it.
