Gustave Flaubert on poetry

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Robert Frost1874–1963

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

T. S. Eliot1888–1965“Philip Massinger”, a biographical essay, in The Sacred Wood (1920)

Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963Reflections on the Psalms