„Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations — many rare combinations.To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.“

— Walt Whitman

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„Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.“
— Gloria Steinem
„The vision of the artist or the poet is the intermediate determinant between the subject (the person) and the objective pole (the world-waiting-to-be). It will be nonbeing until the poet's struggle brings forth an answer — meaning. The greatness of a poem or a painting is not that it portrays the thing observed or experienced, but that it portrays the artist's or the poet's vision cued off by his encounter with the reality. Hence the poem or the painting is unique, original, never to be duplicated. No matter how many times Monet returned to paint the cathedral at Rouen, each canvas was a new painting expressing a new vision.“
— Rollo May