Every man is a poet when he is in love.

Man is the poet who kills, Woman the angel who eats.

— Greg Bear

Love makes you a singer love makes you a poet love makes you a fighter love makes you a forgiver love makes you a…

— Ritu Ghatourey

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

— Eugene Field

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was…

— Umberto Eco

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

— Anonymous

A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.

— Philip James Bailey

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.

— Lawrence Durrell

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

— Lucinda Williams

A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

— Lord Byron

“Every man is a poet at heart.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Hey, Babe." The man was a poet. "Hey." I was too.”

— Alice Clayton

A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

— Victor Hugo

One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty is his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson