In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting…

Amanda [Bynes] and I are the same age so I grew up watching her and really looking up to her and for me, to…

— Chrissy Teigen

“He opened his mouth to speak, finally initiating conversation with me! “’Sup, Viv?” The man was a poet. I had no words. Strike that,…

— Alice Clayton

Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I…

— John Green

You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“I am a writer because I write, an author because I create, a poet because the words are in my soul.”

— Wesley D. Gray

“He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his soul, where,…

— George MacDonald

“I caution against communication because once language exist only to convey information, it is dying. In news articles the relation of the words to…

— Richard Hugo

A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.

— Wallace Stevens

language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

— Erica Jong

Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.

— Langston Hughes

“No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.”

— Anonymous

“A great poet gives words wings to fly in the reader's perceptual sky.”

— Debasish Mridha

The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you feel deeply..

— Melody Minagar

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