Every man is a poet at heart.

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

— Greg Bear

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

— Eugene Field

“She was not happy--she never had been. Whence came this insufficiency in life--this instantaneous turning to decay of everything on which she leaned? But…

— Gustave Flaubert

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

— Virginia Woolf

My poet's heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Better to have the poet's heart than brain, Feeling than song.

— George MacDonald

“...who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?”

— Virginia Woolf

“Old soul. Poet's heart. Warriors mind.”

— Melody Lee

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

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

— Lucinda Williams

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

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lawrence Durrell

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

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