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Poetry · Reflection
GEORGE SAND ~ ON BEING A POET
9 January 2011
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
~George Sand, 1851
Painting is George Sand by Eugene Delacroix
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