For next to being a great poet is the power of…

Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

— Amelia Barr

“Poet has no power over the muse, it's the muse who powers the poet.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to name and…

— Kevin Crossley-Holland

“Poet has no power over the muse, It's the muse who powers the poet. Best of poetry is an act of selfless care, As…

— Abhijit Naskar

There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own

— Kobe Bryant

I hope somewhere to break down what seems to be a kind of robotic communication between those in power and those who are understanding…

— Emily Maitlis

Power with understanding is very good, but power without understanding is very dangerous

— Tariq Ramadan

There is often grace in silence. But there is always power in understanding.

— Michele Norris

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom!

— Takeda Shingen

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

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