I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was…

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.

— Torquato Tasso

“To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive god. This is why the poet…

— Martin Heidegger

What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

— Rachel Held Evans

“God is the Poet, and we are the verses or songs He writes.”

— Martin Luther

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a…

— Aldo Leopold

The only way to love a person is...by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For…

— Brenda Ueland

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

— Honore de Balzac

... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps…

— Adrienne Rich

If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets,…

— Galileo Galilei

The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is…

— Norman Cousins

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early…

— Umberto Eco

“Without pain, poetry is not possible.”

— seerat

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the…

— Washington Irving

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

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

— Carl Rakosi