None but a poet can understand a poet; none but a romantic…

“Science confirms faith in ways only a poet could understand.”

— Jonah Gibson

Whoever would understand the poet Must go into the poet's country. [Ger., Wer den Dichter will verstehen Muss in Dichters Lande gehen.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Loving my Poet as I do, though, I try hard to understand what a poet is. The first clue lies in the fact that…

— Naeem Murr

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked…

— Katy Lederer

I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a…

— Nikki Giovanni

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the…

— Washington Irving

“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my…

— Alexandria Clarke

The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from…

— Richard Dawkins

“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the…

— Erica Jong

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare

“Time gives poetry to a battlefield...”

— Graham Greene

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany

The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine.

— Meena Harris

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

— Carl Rakosi