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My very favourite is from Soren Kierkegaard (no surprise I guess):
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely
formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music...
and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;"
that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul"
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely
formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music...
and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;"
that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul"
by Leanne on May 1 2007