Christy

“A Poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness, and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

“Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.”
― Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel And Stella

“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.”
― Henry Stanley Haskins, Meditations in Wall Street