A poet is a person who thinks there is something special about a poet and about his loving one unattainable woman.You'll usually find he takes the physical out on whores. I am defining a romantic poetöand there is no other kind. An unromantic poet is a self-contradiction.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  Letter to Louis Untermeyer, 6  Jun.

The artist is not a special kind of man but every man a special kind of artist.

-Gill, (Arthur) Eric Rowton
  Art, introduction.

Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special.

-Gray, AlasdairJames
Lanark, bk.3, ch.1.

   Totakeanalmost religiousview, thisearthisnothing very special.There have probably been millions of earths just like ours each producing a particular intelligent species. That isnottosay thattheyall developed well, thattheyall achieved some sort of perfection. And if the planner made lots of them and some of them chose to destroy themselves,thenwe canonlysupposethattheplanner is a hard and practical man.

-Hoyle, Sir Fred
  In the Daily Mail.