The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods…

When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may concern!" And…

— John Godfrey Saxe

When I came back to New York, it was such a joke because I was always referred to as the pure young poet who…

— Jim Carroll

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time. [Lat., Alius quidam veterum…

— Aulus Gellius

“Justice is in the hands of the gods, an old poet wrote, mortal hands hold only mercy and the sword.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

— Abraham Lincoln

“That is all. Two epochs met. A silly little girl and an old poet.”

— Lina Kostenko

An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.

— Stanley Kunitz

I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when…

— Philip Larkin

There is no moral to my song, I praise no right, I blame no wrong; I tell of things that I have seen, I…

— Thomas MacDonagh

What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and…

— William Wordsworth

“Autopsychography The poet is a man who feigns And feigns so thoroughly, at last He manages to feign as pain The pain he really…

— FERNANDO PESSOA

The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker.

— Pablo Neruda

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

— Edwin Markham

“The knowledge both of the Poet and the Man of science is pleasure; but the knowledge of the one cleaves to us as a…

— William Wordsworth

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

— Randall Jarrell