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
Torquato Tasso 
Pierre Charles Baudleaire 
James Thurber 
Vladimir Nabokov 
Robert Browning 
Maximilian Schell 
Philip Pullman 
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A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.
Lee Strasberg 
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The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.
Peter Davison
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I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.
Mary Timony
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."
Abraham Lincoln
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Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
William E. Gladstone
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In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?
Robert Fitzgerald
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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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