The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves. — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine… — James A. McDougall Copy Share Image
The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you… — Melody Minagar Copy Share Image
I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able… — John Muir Copy Share Image
You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There's great poetry in the Old Testament and the New Testament. And I'm not interested in trying to prove whether this paragraph… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
I've noticed that there can be a visceral reaction to strong statements about poetry, as if anyone who has an opinion and… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“The following obituary appeared in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph of Sept. 16, 1958: A GREAT POET died last week in Lancieux, France, at… — Robert Service Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a man named Jack Gilbert, who was not related to me—unfortunately for me. Jack Gilbert was… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“A great poet gives words wings to fly in the reader's perceptual sky.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
