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
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As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody Allen 
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A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.
Wilfred Owen
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I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
William Butler Yeats
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It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.
Richard Wilbur
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A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Henry Moore
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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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