He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a…

“Every mother should be a true artist, who knows how to weave into her child's life images of grace and beauty, the true poet…

— Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

“[H]e was soon to be head clerk; it was time to settle down. So he gave up his flute, exalted sentiments, and poetry; for…

— Gustave Flaubert

There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

— Anonymous

Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a very fine…

— Edith Sitwell

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

— Irving Stone

I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once, in short,…

— Philip Larkin

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word,…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

“How I hate this silk dress that conceals a poet. Written in the mid 9th century by a brave woman poet. Even then, even…

— Yu Hsuan-Chi

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool,…

— Jon McGregor

In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a…

— Anonymous

It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his…

— Demosthenes

I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so little understanding…

— Emma Goldman

It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide