Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and men and women who make verses. But all are not poets, nor even good versifiers. Poetasters are plentiful, but real poets are rare. Education can not make a poet, though it may polish and develop one. Orson F. Whitney Read Quote
Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius. Orson F. Whitney Read Quote
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization. Orson F. Whitney Read Quote