The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther…

The eye of the poet is that of a bird and bug, heart of leaves, or roads.

— Mariana Fulger

A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't see is…

— George M. Church

“The heart sees farther than the head. —Italian proverb Ada,”

— Jane Healey

A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.

— George Herbert

A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do." (Leroy Eims)

— Anonymous

The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Wisdom sees farther than intelligence, even when its eyes are closed.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will…

— James A. Michener

Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.

— David Biespiel

“Vivian Bloodmark, a philosophical friend of mine, in later years, used to say that while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this…

— Robert Schumann

The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Yet nothing can be more certain than this: what makes a poet a poet is the fact that he sees himself surrounded by figures…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Not deep the poet sees, but wide.

— Matthew Arnold

“The poet who sees himself as a hero or a prophet, or a priest of the socio-political forces to which he is loyal, which…

— Michael D. O'Brien