The works of great poets have never been read by mankind…

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them

— Henry David Thoreau

I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

— Isaac Rosenberg

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

— Marie Corelli

All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

— William C. Bryant

“The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. Most men have learned…

— Thoreau Henry David

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail…

— Walt Whitman

I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the…

— Mary Oliver

Now, I do say, "It's possible. You might be the first. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are very much against you."…

— Edward Hirsch

I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with access to…

— Robert Hass

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or hopefully that…

— Sara Paretsky

Good poets borrow, great poets steal

— T. S. Eliot

Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of the great…

— James Russell Lowell

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

— Rebecca Harding Davis

It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in…

— Anonymous