The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in…

Because the true perfection of a practical occupation consists not only in knowing the actual performance of the occupation but also in its explanation,…

— Gersonides

I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then of an…

— Jorge Luis Borges

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

— Alice Mattison

“I have my books. I don't live in the actual world.”

— Douglas Preston

For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; asthough…

— Eugene Ionesco

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

— James Joyce

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Jacob wrote that the true poet 'is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to look at…

— Anonymous

“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is…

— Dan Simmons

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

— George Sand

Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.

— Heinrich Heine

Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to…

— Allen Ginsberg

“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.”

— David J Delaney

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries…

— Anonymous

“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any style of poetry. David J Delaney ©”

— David J Delaney