“a poet's love
Is immortality!”

“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

“There are two classes of poets — the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal.”

Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist

“Belief in one’s identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one’s immortality…and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.”

Dan Simmons book Hyperion

“Such was a poet and shall be and is
-who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

“That I shall love always,
I argue thee
that love is life,
and life hath immortality”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

“Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”

Virginia Woolf book Orlando: A Biography

“Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet”

Plato (-427–-347 BC) Classical Greek philosopher