Top Poet Quotes
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
Leslie Fiedler
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
God is the perfect poet.
Robert Browning
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.
Vicente Aleixandre
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
W. H. Auden 
Thomas Hardy 
Edith Sitwell 
Thom Gunn 
Robert Graves 
Virginia Woolf 
Allen Tate 
Kenneth Branagh 
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Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
Helen Hayes 
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The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
Stephane Mallarme
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I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.
Philip Levine
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If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.
Charles Ives
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The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.
Robert Morgan
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Russell Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse - with tongue in cheek and a steady hand.
Thomas D'Evelyn
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The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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Popular Poet Authors
Friedrich NietzscheWilliam ShakespeareOscar WildeMarcus Tullius Cicero PlatoAbraham LincolnWilliam HazlittGeorge Santayana HoraceKahlil GibranGeorge OrwellEmile M. CioranRobert FrostE. M. ForsterW. Somerset Maugham
Ernest HemingwayVirginia WoolfCharles BaudelaireBryant H. McGillWoody AllenWalt WhitmanLord ChesterfieldSigmund FreudGustave FlaubertWilliam Butler YeatsJames Russell LowellT. S. EliotFrank Lloyd WrightW. H. AudenJames Thurber
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