“With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary else?” NeedsPoetNeededConstantCompanionSolitaryMuse Author:Richard Henry Stoddard
“Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . . whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd.” MenEmotionVisionSubjectsPoetProphetSolitaryDominionHerdsThoughts And EmotionsSolitary Man Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it, Before that brief gleam of its life be gone.” IfsSoulShowsLife IsBeautyGonePoetMirrorsProofSatisfiedCompareSolitarySwansGleamMoralist Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and tamed the natural savagery of the tongue. For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsBodyVoiceNaturalCommonBehindsWrittenPoetBirthMassForgottenTongueOutcomesSolitaryMasterpieceJaneAustenSavageryTamedEliotForerunnersBronteChaucerMarlowe Book:A Room of One's Own Source: A Room of One's Own
“In America, a metrical poem is likely to conjure up the idea of the sort of poet who wears ties and lunches at the faculty club. In Russia it suggests the moral force of an art practiced against the greatest personal odds, as a discipline, solitary and intense.” ArtIdeasAmericaForceMoralPoetDisciplineClubsRussiaIntenseTiesFacultyLunchSolitaryOdds Author:Joseph Brodsky