I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great…

I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

— Isaac Rosenberg

All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

— William C. Bryant

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

— Marie Corelli

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

If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than…

— Walt Whitman

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

— Henry David Thoreau

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Good poets borrow, great poets steal

— T. S. Eliot

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

— Rebecca Harding Davis

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

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

Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge