--- title: "9 Poets Make Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 9 Poets Make quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Poets Make sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/163/w-g-hoskins-92179_best_poets-make-the-best-topographers-3164112_3164112.jpg" --- > [“Poets make the best topographers.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-g-hoskins/poets-make-the-best-topographers/) [W.G. Hoskins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-g-hoskins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/163/w-g-hoskins-92179_best_poets-make-the-best-topographers-3164112_3164112.jpg) > [Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy, And with their Comoedies they make us cry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theresa-villiers/our-poets-make-us-laugh-at-trag-dy-and-with-their-comoedies-they-make/) [Theresa Villiers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theresa-villiers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/008/theresa-villiers-45399_cry_our-poets-make-us-laugh-at-trag-dy-and-w_987799.jpg) > [“There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toba-beta/there-are-many-unspeakable-words-forgotten-or-forbidden-great-thanks/) [Toba Beta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toba-beta/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c6/toba-beta-105_forbidden_there-are-many-unspeakable-words-forgott_751213.jpg) > [Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/written-poetry-is-worth-reading-once-and-then-should-be-destroyed-let-2/) [Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea0/antonin-artaud-3802_dead-poets_written-poetry-is-worth-reading-once-and_1794257.png) > [The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-silva/the-scientist-and-engineers-who-are-building-the-future-need-the/) [Jason Silva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-silva/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9e/jason-silva-8140_building_the-scientist-and-engineers-who-are-buil_2540016.png) > [“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alok-mishra/in-the-beginning-poets-make-their-best-efforts-to-fit-words-into/) [Alok Mishra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alok-mishra/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dde/alok-mishra-28927_author_in-the-beginning-poets-make-their-best-e_1983548.jpg) > [Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/written-poetry-is-worth-reading-once-and-then-should-be-destroyed-let/) [Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fd/antonin-artaud-3802_beautiful_written-poetry-is-worth-reading-once-and_1173747.png) > [ Not by wisdom do they \[poets\] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/not-by-wisdom-do-they-poets-make-what-they-compose-but-by-a-gift-of/) [Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/socrates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/836/socrates-405_inspiration_not-by-wisdom-do-they-poets-make-what-th_1489218.jpg) > [That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-zapruder/that-is-a-horrible-thing-in-a-way-but-it-is-the-one-thing-poets-can/) [Matthew Zapruder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-zapruder/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea6/matthew-zapruder-12762_activate_that-is-a-horrible-thing-in-a-way-but-it_942120.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poets-make/#itemlist", "name": "Poets Make Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Poets make the best topographers.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "W.G. 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