No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was…

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

— Anonymous

“That year, we knew the sky existed because we believed in the storm, but we never saw the sky.”

— Jorge Galán

“People existed, however, who believed that closet racist were everywhere around them. They needed to believe this in order to have prupose and meaning…

— Dean Koontz

“He was no fool; he knew that love existed. But he also believed in the power of the mind, and perhaps even more importantly,…

— Julia Quinn

“If Erik existed and lived life in despair, We wish him to know we are here and we care.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

There were poets before Homer.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our…

— Richard M. Weaver

“The poet is just like the fabled hunter who naps beside a tree, waiting for hares to break their skulls by running headlong into…

— Gu Cheng

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