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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Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.
Joseph Brodsky 
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
W. H. Auden
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I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.
Laurence Olivier
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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Jean Cocteau
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It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.
Philip Levine
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I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
Lord Chesterfield
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I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.
Kenneth Koch
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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
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