A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
