To the Daisy.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.”
"Charity" http://www.masielalushafoundation.org/
“The poet is a god, or, the young poet is a god. The old poet is a tramp.”
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
“A Poet is needed to fully interpret a poet”
Samuel Rutherford Unwin Bros, Gresham Press, London 1891
“None but a poet can translate a poet.”
Introduction (p. cl)
The Lusiad; Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem (1776)
Source: "Philip Massinger", a biographical essay in The Sacred Wood (1920)
“All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.”
He stated when he deviated from the Valmiki Ramayana epic story and was criticized for the changes made. Quoted in [Mandakranta Bose Director of the Center for India and South Asia Research and the Institute of Asian Research University of British Columbia, The Ramayana Revisited, http://books.google.com/books?id=F_vuoXvAUfQC&pg=PA140, 1 September 2004, Oxford University Press, 978-0-19-803763-7, 140–]
